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A collection of essays — early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations — on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.

Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture. Among the important general issues it also raises are the relation between ideology and art, the status and authorship of the film text in the entertainment market, the city, the construction of gender, the relation between the human body and the machi...

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6 Non-Authors Who Helped Make SFF What It Is Today

6 Non-Authors Who Helped Make SFF What It Is Today

As most readers of sci-fi and fantasy are probably aware, there are these things called tropes—bits of storytelling shorthand that convey something about the narrative we’re experiencing, based solely on our preexisting experience with the genre. The tropes that are used and reused in the stories we love didn’t just come out of thin air—for the most part, […]
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