By focusing on what is outside the frame, this book offers a comprehensive theory of film, a concise history of American cinema, and a reflection on the place and significance of film within the arts of modernity in general. On the origin of film and the resurrection of the peo…
From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting everything that is within it from the continuity of the world and creating a rea…
This book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two important and controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelun…
In this study Tom Gunning turns his attentions to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors.
The films of Fritz Lang: allegories of vision and modernity
by Gunning, Tom
fromA BFI book
In this study Tom Gunning turns his attentions to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors.