Technology as Witchcraft. Fear and Desire: A Female Robot in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
Technology as Witchcraft. Fear and Desire: A Female Robot in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
Author(s): Zbigniew WałaszewskiSubject(s): Anthropology, Gender Studies, Media studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; film genres; film; movie; Metropolis; robot; witch; witchcraft; science fiction; Fritz Lang; humanoid robot;
Summary/Abstract: The article examines the ambivalent attitude and reactions to technology as exemplified by the female robot in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and analyzes the functions and mechanisms of mythological reenactment of the witch figure in the culture of modernity. It discusses the movie’s symbolic representations of technological progress and its perils, as well as its ethics and gender politics.
Journal: Kultura Popularna
- Issue Year: 38/2013
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 102-109
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English