Tag: Metropolis
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Semiotic ghosts: Dubai’s architectural hallucinations
Travelling from the UK to New Zealand recently we stopped for two days in Dubai in order to make the long journey more manageable. Even allowing for the dislocating effect of flying across time zones and two sleepless nights since the hotel we were staying in was packed with raucous teams competing in the international…
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Industrial futures: Lang’s Metropolis
Introduction to Metropolis (Lang, 1927) – Dukes cinema, Lancaster, 16 Jan 2010 This is the introductory public talk I gave for a screening of a print of the definitive 2010 restoration of this film Premiered in Berlin on January 10th, 1927, Metropolis was the most expensive film produced in Germany up until that point. With 36,000 extras,…
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‘Perspectives on Production Design’, Lancaster University, March 2013.
In March this year I organised a one-day research symposium on production design in cinema at Lancaster University. This video is of the introductory keynote paper by Prof. Sir Christopher Frayling, which includes a historical survey of approaches to film production design and outlines some of the key issues for scholars and critics studying this…
Bruce Bennett 