Lo spazio visionario di Metropolis: linguaggi formali dell’avanguardia e immagini mentali

Journal title CRIOS
Author/s Fabio Mangone
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/15
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 5-12 File size 246 KB
DOI 10.3280/CRIOS2018-015001
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The cult-movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang is here discussed for its relationships between architecture and psychoanalysis, addressing the web of inspirations - coming from different pictorial, architectural and philosophical schools of thought - sustaining Lang’s work. The ideal metropolis depicted in Lang’s famous scenes lives at the cross-road of expressionism, Art Nouveau, modernism and De Stijl, as a spatial icon suspended between phallic verticalism and dark underground, and as a contradiction between dominating and subaltern classes. This imaginary place of alienation is here discussed as an example of how Marxism has been elaborated by psychoanalysis through art and architecture, refreshing a long term tradition of studies developed around the movie.

Keywords: Metropolis, architecture, psychoanalysis

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Fabio Mangone, Lo spazio visionario di Metropolis: linguaggi formali dell’avanguardia e immagini mentali in "CRIOS" 15/2018, pp 5-12, DOI: 10.3280/CRIOS2018-015001