Prof. Henkel Publishes Article on Fritz Lang’s Final Film

Associate Professor of German & Film Studies Brook Henkel recently published an article in the journal New German Critique titled “Mabuse Returns: Fritz Lang, 1950s Berlin, and the Afterlife of Nazi Television.” The article rereads Fritz Lang’s final film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) as a reflection on transformations in urban space and media technologies after WWII. Newly contextualizing the film in relation to the 1940s-50s writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer, as well as the history of Nazi television, the article demonstrates Lang’s concerns with the afterlife of fascism and irrationality in media systems of the postwar era. Prof. Henkel is co-chair of the Digital Media & Film Department and is currently directing St. Lawrence’s off-campus program in NYC, where he is teaching a new film studies course titled “New York: Cinema City.”