La ville à l’écran : esthétique du spectaculaire et du tentaculaire dans Metropolis de Fritz Lang et Brazil de Terry Gilliam
This paper addresses the city as a cultural construct in Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1928) and Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985): first as a dream space for the development of futurist architecture, then as a privileged screen-space for chiaroscuro and the German expressionist context, and its transposition...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/1742 |
| Summary: | This paper addresses the city as a cultural construct in Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1928) and Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985): first as a dream space for the development of futurist architecture, then as a privileged screen-space for chiaroscuro and the German expressionist context, and its transposition in Technicolor, and third as the locus for an irretrievable metamorphosis of the human species, particularly in the depiction of Woman as a "femme fatale". |
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| ISSN: | 2425-6250 2431-1766 |