Metropolis
Location
JAAC 1034
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
12-9-2016 7:00 PM
Description
Perhaps the first film to examine what appeared, even in 1927, to be an increasingly thin line between man and machine, especially among the working class, Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece Metropolis presents the first fully realized humanoid robot, created in a process eerily similar to that of Frankenstein’s monster. Often referred to as Maria, after the woman whose form she is given, in fact she embodies simultaneously the human desire for and fear of the technology that was emerging in the industrialized west. Join us for a showing of this silent classic, presented with English subtitles and the original orchestral score composed for the movie. Film 2 of the Pre-Symposium International Film Series, “Of (Hu)man and Machine,” co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Belmont University Film Society. Discussion to follow.
Recommended Citation
Belmont University, "Metropolis" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 7.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/ff2016/7
Metropolis
JAAC 1034
Perhaps the first film to examine what appeared, even in 1927, to be an increasingly thin line between man and machine, especially among the working class, Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece Metropolis presents the first fully realized humanoid robot, created in a process eerily similar to that of Frankenstein’s monster. Often referred to as Maria, after the woman whose form she is given, in fact she embodies simultaneously the human desire for and fear of the technology that was emerging in the industrialized west. Join us for a showing of this silent classic, presented with English subtitles and the original orchestral score composed for the movie. Film 2 of the Pre-Symposium International Film Series, “Of (Hu)man and Machine,” co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Belmont University Film Society. Discussion to follow.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences