Legacy of Metropolis

Legacy of MetropolisThe Mighty City in Film

Theme of Metropolis-like Films

• Science and industry are systematic weapons of demagogues/capitalists.

• Lone hero:– Discovers and masters (social, economic,

technical) machinations of future society.– Penetrate the technocultural system of

control.

Legacy of MetropolisVisual of The Mad Scientist

Analysis of Metropolis

Futurism

• Unique Forms in Continuity in Space

• Umberto Boccioni (1913)

Humans and Technology:Mediate or Merger?

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