Metropolis - 75th Anniversary Edition by Thea Von Harbou

Metropolis - 75th Anniversary Edition by Thea Von Harbou

This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film.

Michael Joseph of The Bookman wrote about the novel: It is a remarkable piece of work, skilfully reproducing the atmosphere one has come to associate with the most ambitious German film productions. Suggestive in many respects of the dramatic work of Karel Capek and of the earlier fantastic romances of H. G. Wells, in treatment it is an interesting example of expressionist literature. . Metropolis is one of the most powerful novels I have read and one which may capture a large public both in America and England if it does not prove too bewildering to the plain reader.

Thea von Harbou (1888 to 1954) was a prolific German author and screenwriter. She published over forty books, including novels, childrens' books, and collections of short stories, poems, and essays. She also wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for somewhere around seventy full-length motion pictures in the silent and sound era. Her best known film is the science-fiction epic Metropolis (1927), for which she wrote the screenplay. Ironically, her novel based on that screenplay is also her best-known book. Only now are some of her other works, such as The Indian Tomb beginning to become available in English,

Although von Harbou was at home in many different forms and genres, the typical von Harbou heroine is a strong-willed, independent woman often called upon to rescue and redeem the men in her life.

She was married three times: actor Rudolph Klein-Rogge (who played leading roles in many of her films), director Fritz Lang (whose celebrated silent films were all written by her), and journalist and Indian patriot Ayi Tendulkar. Not exactly a feminist, she nevertheless achieved great success in the male-dominated German film industry, and at one point, she is reputed to have been the highest-paid screenwriter in Germany.

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ISBN 13	9780918736352
ISBN 10	0918736358
Titel	Metropolis - 75th Anniversary Edition
Autor	Thea Von Harbou
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	James A. Rock & Company Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-11-01
Seitenanzahl	264
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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