Research

Some notes and article links related to my critical text of Metropolis (1927) covering a range of subjects. I wanted to look at items/ subjects around the film, like art movements and the history of the time as well to see if they are linked in any way, providing a better analysis. At this point I'm just collecting resources and will edit down and select which ones I'll study in more depth later:

BFI Film Classics - Metropolis: Tom Elsaesser. Book: Changing appreciation- moroder soundtrack
                                                                   - messages: themes not as strong as thought;socialist. romanitc. political
- von harbou - political and 1930s
-style- german expressionism - modern; daft punk and moroder, tron.

Metropolis: Catherine Russell. - Modern review. Changing perceptions (compare to old review). Links to Tom Elasser book.

From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film

Book by Siegfried Kracauer

The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Andreas Huyssen  

The Future is Now: Diegetic Prototypes and the Role of Popular Films in Generating Real-world Technological Development 

Looking for the German Revolution in Weimar Films 

Weimar Culture and Futuristic Technology: The Rocketry and Spaceflight Fad in Germany, 1923-1933

From "Caligari" to Dietrich: Sexual, Social, and Cinematic Discourses in Weimar Film

The Mediation of Technology and Gender: Metropolis, Nazism, Modernism

Metropolis. BFI Film Classics by Thomas Elsaesser

Review by: Susan Love Brown

-Used already to authenticate Elsaesser's opinion and book.

Foreign Exchange: German Expressionism and Its Legacy:Tricia Welsch

 Theory, History and German Film; Katie Trumpener

The Not-So-Golden Twenties: Everyday Life and Communist Agitprop in Weimar-Era Berlin:Richard Bodek 

 Lovers, Filmmakers, and Nazis: Fritz Lang's Last Two Movies as Autobiography;Michael Tratner

 Fritz Lang's Metropolis : cinematic visions of technology and fear     Minden, Michael.