Metropolis

By:

Thomas Elsaesser

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

BFI Film Classics

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Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months' filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for director Fritz Lang's increasingly extravagant ambitions. Lang, inspired by the skyline of New York, created a whole new vision of cities. One of the greatest works of science fiction, the film also tells human stories about love and family. Thomas Elsaesser explores the cultural phenomenon of Metropolis: its different versions (there is no definitive one), its changing meanings, and its role as a database of twentieth-century imagery and ideologies. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Elsaesser discusses the impact of the 27 minutes of 'lost' footage discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008, and incorporated in a restored edition, which premiered in 2010.

Author Biography:

THOMAS ELAESSER is Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and since 2006 Visiting Professor at Yale University. His books include Weimar Cinema and After (2000), Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (2009) and The Persistence of Hollywood (2011).

Release date NZ

July 31st, 2012

Author

Thomas Elsaesser

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Edition

2nd ed. 2012

Illustrations

112 p.

Imprint

BFI Publishing

Pages

112

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Series

BFI Film Classics

Dimensions

135x191x8

ISBN-13

9781844575015

Product ID

19862884

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