Contents

Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv

1 Introduction 1 Joe McElhaney

Part One Looking, Power, Interpretation 31 2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock 33 Raymond Bellour 3 While Not Looking: The Failure to See and Know in Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 43 Frances Guerin 4 Symptom, Exhibition, Fear: Representations of Terror in the German Work of 63 Nicole Brenez 5 Spies: Postwar Paranoia Goes to the Movies 76 Paul Dobryden 6 Identifying theCOPYRIGHTED Suspect: Lang’s M and the Trajectories MATERIAL of Film Criticism 94 Olga Solovieva 7 The Medium’s Re-Vision: (Or the Doctor as Disease, Diagnostic, and Cure) 114 David Phelps

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Part Two Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions 139 8 Metaphysics of Finitude: Der müde Tod and the Crisis of Historicism 141 Nicholas Baer 9 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and the Caesura 161 Chris Fujiwara 10 Lang contra Wagner: as Anti-Adaptation 176 Thomas Leitch 11 Redemption of Revenge: Die Nibelungen 195 Steve Choe 12 Furious Union: Fritz Lang and the American West 219 Phil Wagner 13 “It Was a Horserace Sorta”: Fortunes of 242 Tom Conley

Part Three Matters of Form 257 14 Beyond Destiny and Design: Camera Movement in Fritz Lang’s German Films 259 Daniel Morgan 15 Fritz Lang: Object and Thing in the German Films 279 Brigitte Peucker 16 A Stranger in the House: Fritz Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile 300 Anton Kaes 17 Fritz Lang’s Modern Character: You Only Live Once and the Depth of Surface 322 Will Scheibel 18 Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, and the Frame of Performance 340 Steven Rybin 19 “I’d Like to Own That Painting”: Lang, Cézanne, and the Art of Omission 358 Vinzenz Hediger 20 Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in 371 Pamela Robertson Wojcik 21 and the Figuration of Eidos 392 Paolo Bertetto

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Part Four Rediscoveries and Returns 413 22 Not the End: Fritz Lang’s War 415 Lutz Koepnick 23 Classic(al) Lang: Conflicting Impulses in 430 Jakob Isak Nielsen 24 Multiple Reflections: The Woman in the Mirror in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger 458 Doug Dibbern 25 Suspended Modernity: On the Last Five Films of Fritz Lang 474 Carlos Losilla 26 The Limit: 494 Adrian Martin 27 Looking for a Path: Fritz Lang and 514 Joe McElhaney 28 Notes on (Lang, Renoir, Zola) 536 Sam Ishii-Gonzales 29 Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering 554 Tom Gunning and Katharina Loew Index 587

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