The Mediation of Technology and Gender
Metropolis, Nazism, Modernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5161122 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R L Rutsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Issue | 60 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/488664 |
| OpenAlex | W2332022577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
If, as many have claimed, aesthetic modernism can be defined by its relation to technology, perhaps no other single work condenses so many aspects of this relationship as Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926). There, modernism's fears of and fascination with technology are given overdetermined representation. Andreas Huyssen, in one of more perceptive analyses of Metropolis, has argued that film is an attempt to resolve two diametrically opposed views of technology: an expressionist view that emphasizes technology's oppressive and destructive potential and unbridled confidence in technical progress and social engineering oft the technology cult of Neue Sachlichkeit.I Huyssen has elsewhere suggested that whole of twentieth-century avant-garde may be defined by its experience positive or negative of technology.2 Yet, viewing Metropolis, much less modernism in general, in terms of a dialectic between utopian and dystopian views of technology may obscure as much as it clarifies. It makes little sense, for example, to categorize Italian futurists, Soviet constructivists, and architects of German Werkbund simply in terms of their technological utopianism. Although these movements do tend to see technology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |