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Metropolis
Wolfgang Jacobsen
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Description for Metropolis
Hardcover. "Metropolis", internationally renowned as a major piece of German film culture, represents film art in the Weimar Republic in an artistically unique and yet unusually popular way, but it also contains one of the first fully-formulated 20th-century city fantasies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 191 illus. BIC Classification: AM; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 294 x 240 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1364.
Text in English and German. What links film and architecture? Above all it is 'Metropolis', the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios in 1925/26. Its extravagance created enormous financial difficulties for Ufa, the biggest German film concern, but it had a brilliant premiere in Berlin in January 1927, went on to enjoy unparalleled success world-wide -- and then came to symbolise (film) architectural design for the future. 'Metropolis', internationally renowned as a major piece of German film culture, represents film art in the Weimar Republic in an artistically unique and yet unusually popular way, but it also ... Read more
Text in English and German. What links film and architecture? Above all it is 'Metropolis', the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios in 1925/26. Its extravagance created enormous financial difficulties for Ufa, the biggest German film concern, but it had a brilliant premiere in Berlin in January 1927, went on to enjoy unparalleled success world-wide -- and then came to symbolise (film) architectural design for the future. 'Metropolis', internationally renowned as a major piece of German film culture, represents film art in the Weimar Republic in an artistically unique and yet unusually popular way, but it also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783930698851
SKU
V9783930698851
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About Wolfgang Jacobsen
Wolfgang Jacobsen studied German and English literature, theory of drama and art history; from 1982 to 1991 he was an editor at the Berlin International Film Festival; from 1991 he has been director of the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek's publications department. Werner Sudendorf studied philosophy, journalism and theory of drama; since 1980 he has been director of the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek's ... Read more
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