TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES: A HISTORICIST ESSAY ON FRITZ LANG'S METROPOLIS AND M

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  • Pedro Spinola Pereira Caldas Professor do Instituto de História da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/hr.v13i1.5423

Abstract

This essay's purpose consists in applying Thomas Elsaesser's category to understand the leading figures of Weimar culture, namely: transparent duplicities. According to Elsaesser, the Weimar intellectual knew more about themselves than any other critic and culture historian could ever possibly know. In order to illustrate the concept, this paper deals with Metropolis and M, two Fritz Lang's films which weren't analyzed by Elsaesser under that category, that, by its turn, might be very useful for a historicist approach towards the Weimar period.

 

KEY WORDS: Weimar Republic, german cinema, Fritz Lang.

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Author Biography

  • Pedro Spinola Pereira Caldas, Professor do Instituto de História da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia.

     

Published

2009-01-16

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How to Cite

CALDAS, P. S. P. TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES: A HISTORICIST ESSAY ON FRITZ LANG’S METROPOLIS AND M. História Revista, v. 13, n. 1, 16 Jan.2009.