Here I present: Thea Von Harbou, “Metropolis”, 1925 novel. This novel was also an early cinematic film.
INTRODUCTION.
Thea Von Harbou, “Metropolis”, 1925 was a German “economics” science-fiction novel. The 1920’s were a decade of rapid technological progress. The representation of The State, as a tyrannical corporation in dystopian fiction is Thea Von Harbou’s, “Metropolis”, 1925. The main characters are Freder and Maria, a couple of lovers. Maria is lower class than Freder (his father is the City Founder). The love story setting is futuristic (2026 a hundred years in the future). Maria is the protagonist (“soft” science of economics is the basis of the storyline). The protagonist Maria has a “Foil” character that is a “fembot” (female robot). The writer Thea Von Harbou was German; and “Metropolis” is often studied as propaganda. Thea Von Harbou, was married to Fritz Lang, and he made a 1927 film adaptation of “Metropolis” the novel.
COMMENTS.
Here I presented: Thea Von Harbou, “Metropolis”, 1925. This novel was also an early cinematic film.
Literature, as an art form, is six (6) genre types:
1. Cinema.
2. Fiction.
3. Nonfiction.
4. Drama.
5. Poetry.
6 Folktales.
Five of these literary genres originated in Oral Prehistory; but, cinematic literature of film originated in modern times. Writing began in 3,500 BC and Celluloid Film in 1900’s for Cinema after Thomas Edison (silent film) with Lee De Forest (talking film).
Theatre & Cinema are literary genre’s with “words” used differently from the other four (4) literary genre’s.
De Forest Phonofilm (1922–1925) :De Forest’s major contribution to cinema was Phonofilm, one of the earliest sound-on-film systems. Phonofilm recorded sound optically directly onto the film strip.
