After much ado the fine people of Comcast came today and got the cable, internet, and phone hooked up. After a protracted battle to get the machine hosting this site back on line all is now well.
August 2010 Archives
This site, currently hosted from my computer at home, will be down for an as yet undetermined period of time as we complete our move from Columbus, Ohio to Chicago, IL. It all depends on the good people of Comcast.
This is the book which led to the first Science Fiction film of the same name written by Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang. While the film is defiantly a classic, the medium was still in its infancy and some of the techniques of clear and consistent story telling in moving pictures were yet to be developed. In short, I have seen the film several times and while I got the gist of it the story never became fully clear until I read the book.
The book is melodramatic and the theme is a bit difficult to square with Ms. Harbou's eventual association with the National Socialists, but for anyone who wants a richer understanding of the file I would recommend the book.
