Artificial Bodies, Artificial Lives: METROPOLIS
by Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
The impact that Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) has had on popular culture is difficult to calculate.
by Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
The impact that Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) has had on popular culture is difficult to calculate.
by Melissa Strong
Practically since the invention of the motion picture, movies have imagined worlds where humans are threatened, surpassed, and replaced by androids, cyborgs, hybrids, and machines. Metropolis (1927), the seminal silent film written by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou and directed by Lang, anticipates Blade Runner’s replicants as well as the alt- and post-humans that follow in the twenty-first century.
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