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Metropolis
Series: BFI Film Classics
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This work is ideal for enthusiasts of film history, science fiction, and cultural studies, especially those interested in the impact of cinematic art on twentieth-century imagery and ideologies.
Metropolis (1925) is a monumental work. One of the greatest works of science fiction, it also tells human stories about love and family. This new edition of Elaesser's study is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by the author, and a stunning new jacket design by Cristiana Couceiro.
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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.
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ISBN: 9781844575015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 37 b/w photos
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 134.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 112
About the Author
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).
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