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An unforgettable vision of the 21st Century, "Metropolis" is an
unforgettable science fiction classic originally penned in 1922,
while she was married to German film director Fritz Lang. She
collaborated with Lang on the screenplay for the film version.
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.
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Spies (Paperback)
Thea Von Harbou
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R413
Discovery Miles 4 130
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Spies (1929) is from the pen of Thea von Harbou, author of
"Metropolis." Translated from the German by Helen J. Stiegler.
An unforgettable vision of the 21st Century, "Metropolis" is an
unforgettable science fiction classic originally penned in 1922,
while she was married to German film director Fritz Lang. She
collaborated with Lang on the screenplay for the film version.
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Metropolis (Paperback)
Thea Von Harbou
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R187
R172
Discovery Miles 1 720
Save R15 (8%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In the literature of Science Fiction, there is no more an
underappreciated and ignored piece of writing than Thea Von
Harbou's magnificent Metropolis. The book, a novelization of the
screenplay the author wrote for her husband Fritz Lang's film
masterpiece of the same name, was a clever marketing move since the
sales of one would drive the sales of the other. Yet the two
existed as independent works of art. That proved true only too
briefly. Something happened soon after the film premiered. The film
studio made drastic and clumsy cuts that made the plot impossible
to follow. Censors, exhibitors, and distributors further slashed
the film to under 90 minutes from its original length of 153
minutes. Consequently, the film's reputation for unprecedented
spectacle and imagination was forged by its transcendent and
timeless visual beauty. And Van Harbou's novel was largely
dismissed as an informational bridge between the film's original
storyline and the multiple butchered versions. Unfortunately, that
has been the way the book has been shelved for most of its
publishing history. But the book has a life and a shelf of its own.
If the film had never come to be made, this book would still offer
a fascinating and emotionally powerful reading experience. We see
the stark thematic contrasts between light and dark, God and Satan,
the saintly Maria and the demonic Rotwang, the conflicts between
starry dreams and manual labor, between steamy pump rooms and
airplanes ferrying through bright high rise avenues. We also see
romantic love and its mechanical counterfeits, a fictional aspect
of the novel that has become eerily true in the age of technosexual
robots. The novel has always stood on its own as a work of art, a
work of romantic notions and hard experience, exploring the limits
of thinking or clubbing our way out of life's most horrific
challenges. The novel offers a possible resolution: The mediator
between brain and muscle must be the Heart. Words that ring
eternally true.
The 75th Anniverary edition of Thea von Harbou's classic, the basis
for van Harbou's screenplay for Fritz Lang's ground-breaking 1926
Science Fiction Epic of the same name. This edition of the novel is
"stillustrated" with scenes from the Fritz Lang film classic as
will as behind the scenes photos photos. Theis edition also
includes poster art work, film advertisements, and more including
pieces from Forrest J Ackerman's extensive collection of
"Metropolis" related artifacts.
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The Indian Tomb (Paperback)
Thea Von Harbou; Translated by John Mucci, Richard Felnagle
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R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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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.
This remarkable novel, the basis for the world's greatest
science-fiction movie, has long been a rare but ardently
sought-after collector's item. It is an unforgettable vision of the
21st century and the awe-inspiring city of the future. Metropolis
has been compared to such classics as George Orwell's 1984, H. G.
Wells's The Time Machine, Samuel Butler's Erewhon, and Karel
Capek's R.U.R. Science fiction writer and editor Forrest J Ackerman
called it "a work of genius," noting, "The language of the novel is
sometimes as thesauric as Shiel, as kaliedoscopic as Merritt, as
bone-spare as Bradbury, as poetic as Poe, as macabre as Machen. . .
. You will have an experience in reading that will last you all the
rest of your life."
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