Monthly Archives: May 2012
Freder and the clock machine: Religion and Technology
(This is just me practicing with scene analysis) Chapter: Fear The sequence follows the moment when Freder discovers the workers city. He decides that he himself must take up the position of one of the workers, and endures a gruelling … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Metropolis
Last night I had the opportunity to see Metropolis as it should be seen: in a cinema. As it is one of the two key films I’ll be focusing on in my thesis, I really wanted to be able to … Continue reading
Expressionism and Romanticism
At the moment I am reading “The Haunted Screen” by Lotte Eisner, which is considered to be one of the two most important books on the topic of German Cinema in the 1920′s, so the next couple of weeks will … Continue reading
Caligari and Metropolis: The Language of Weimar 