Austrian-born American Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was one of the world's great film directors. He played a major role in shaping two national cinemas: the German during the 1920s and early 1930s (with films such as Metropolis and M), and the American during...

Although made at the UFA Studios in Germany, Fritz Lang's visionary silent film Metropolis (1926) was inspired by a visit the director had made to New York, on whose skyline its massive and impressive sets were based. The innovative pioneering...

Metropolis is a silent science fiction film created by the famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang. It was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios and released in 1927 during the height of the Weimar Republic. In addition, it was the most...

Metropolis Von Fritz Lang und Thea von Harbou. Bearbeitung: Michael Farin. Musik Laar/Zeifblom Random House Audio 74321 93401 2/BMG. Länge: 63:05 Min. Im Rahmen der Premiere der rekonstruierten Fassung von "Metropolis" auf der "Berlinale"2001 sprach Martin Koerber davon, dass "der Kern der...

Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations. By PETER BROOKER. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. ix+230 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-80168-7. This book begins from the position that modernity and the city need to be considered in terms of...

Passing through southern Illinois on their way to Nashville, Diana Brown and her son Colin saw the signs pointing the way to this town's Superman Square and its colorful bronze statue of the Man of Steel. Thanks to...

A dean at one of China's most prestigious universities has been fired after criticizing the school's administration on his blog.Zhang Ming, dean of political sciences at Renmin University in Beijing, was removed from his position but will remain a professor, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported...

In the following essay, Dadoun discusses Lang's Metropolis in terms of its moral ideology and presents possible reasons why Hitler admired the film.

In the following essay, Neumann discusses the urban architecture of Lang's Metropolis in light of contemporary thought about monumentalism, technological progress, and skyscrapers.

In the following essay, Williams discusses the narrative structure of Lang's Metropolis using A.G. Greimas's system of analysis.