Fritz Lang

Author : Tom Gunning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781838718855

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The Films of Fritz Lang by Tom Gunning Pdf

ln this volume Tom Gunning examines the films of Fritz Lang not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lang's mastery of cinematic set design, composition and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative which can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin and Kracauer. From the sweeping allegorical films of the 20s to the chilly and abstract thrillers of the 50s, Lang's films, Gunning claims, are 'among the most precious records of the twentieth century'. The Films of Fritz Lang immeasurably enriches our understanding of a great artist and, in so doing, reimagines what a film arlist is: an author who fades away even in being recognised and interpreted, an enigmatic figure at the junction of aesthetics, history, biography and theory.

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 1135 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452940649

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Fritz Lang by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This critically acclaimed biography—lauded as one of the year’s best nonfiction books by Publishers Weekly—reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.

Author : Fritz Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578065763

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Fritz Lang by Fritz Lang Pdf

A collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history

Author : David J. Levin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400866694

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Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen by David J. Levin Pdf

This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s film Die Nibelungen creatively exploit contrasts between good and bad aesthetics to address the question of what is German and what is not. He shows that each work associates a villainous character, portrayed as non-Germanic and Jewish, with the sometimes dramatically awkward act of narration. For both Wagner and Lang, narration--or, in cinematic terms, visual presentation--possesses a typically Jewish potential for manipulation and control. Consistent with this view, Levin shows, the Germanic hero Siegfried is killed in each work by virtue of his unwitting adoption of a narrative role. Levin begins with an explanation of the book's theoretical foundations and then applies these theories to close readings of, in turn, Wagner's cycle and Lang's film. He concludes by tracing how Germans have dealt with the Nibelungen myths in the wake of the Second World War, paying special attention to Michael Verhoeven's 1989 film The Nasty Girl. His fresh and interdisciplinary approach sheds new light not only on Wagner's Ring and Lang's Die Nibelungen, but also on the ways in which aesthetics can be put to the service of aggression and hatred. The book is an important contribution to scholarship in film and music and also to the broader study of German culture and national identity.

Author : Lotte Eisner
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0306802716

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Fritz Lang by Lotte Eisner Pdf

Fritz Lang, almost alone among his fellow continental refugees, was able to make outstanding films in both his native Germany and his adopted Hollywood. The director of Metropolis and M and Dr. Mabuse came to America in 1934 and began a long and distinguished career that included such films as You Only Live Once, The Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street, Ministry of Fear, Rancho Notorious, and The Big Heat. He is a key figure in the history of film noir, bringing to the screen a fatalist's vision of a menacing world of criminals, misfits, and helpless victims, and providing a distinctive visual look to every film he directed. This film-by-film study of Lang's oeuvre by one of the great film historians combines personal insight—Eisner and Lang had a long standing friendship—with deep historical understanding of Lang's roots in German culture and cinema. Both true modernists, Eisner and Lang are perfectly matched, as this book clearly demonstrates.

Author : Michael Minden,Holger Bachmann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1571131469

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Fritz Lang's Metropolis by Michael Minden,Holger Bachmann Pdf

Providing a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolist (1972), this volume includes both standard critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time.

Author : Joe McElhaney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780470670972

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A Companion to Fritz Lang by Joe McElhaney Pdf

A Companion to Fritz Lang “Fritz Lang’s movie-making spans a major part of the history of cinema, across genres, styles, and national contexts. With smartness and sharpness, the essays in this essential volume come from many angles to capture the richness of Lang’s cinema and bring great insight to its study.” Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, NYU Fritz Lang’s influence on cinema cannot be overstated, with a career that stretched from the silent era in Germany to the decline of the Hollywood studio system in the late 1950s, from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, from Depression America to the McCarthy era. One of the best known émigrés from Germany’s school of Expressionism, Lang is also credited with influencing the emergence of film noir. A Companion to Fritz Lang offers the first full-scale collection of scholarship available in English on one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Addressing much of Lang’s voluminous body of work, from Metropolis and M, to lesser-known titles such as Western Union and Clash by Night, this volume offers a superb overview of Lang’s cinema with revealing insights into his enduring influence on directors such as Godard, Scorsese, Chabrol, and Tarantino. The two dozen essays presented here are an unrivaled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema’s greatest auteurs.

Author : Thea von Harbou
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486795676

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Metropolis by Thea von Harbou Pdf

This Weimar-era novel of a futuristic society, written by the screenwriter for the iconic 1927 film, was hailed by noted science-fiction authority Forrest J. Ackerman as "a work of genius."

Author : Reynold Humphries
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000050503513

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Fritz Lang by Reynold Humphries Pdf

In applying critical theory to Lang's Hollywood-made film noirs, melodramas, Westerns, and spy films, Humphries provocatively complicates auteur theory and revitalizes an unjustly neglected phase in the career of one of cinema's boldest visionaries.

Author : Peter Bogdanovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0289796032

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Fritz Lang in America by Peter Bogdanovich Pdf

Author : Thea Von Harbou,Fritz Lang,Forrest J. Ackerman
Publisher : Castle Keep Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0918736358

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Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou,Fritz Lang,Forrest J. Ackerman Pdf

Thea von Harbou's classic was the basis for the screenplay for Fritz Lang's groundbreaking 1926 science fiction epic of the same name. This edition of the novel is "stillustrated" with scenes from the film.

Author : Regina Seiwald
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640812240

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Expressionist Style in Fritz Lang's M: A City Searches for a Murderer and The Woman in the Window by Regina Seiwald Pdf

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Birmingham (School of English), course: Film: Narrative, Meaning and Representation, language: English, abstract: Fritz Lang's films are influenced by German Expressionism, which originated in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1930. Extreme stylised mise-en-scène is employed to make the formal organisation of the films obvious (Cook 1999, p. 67). The main concern of German Expressionist films is to create a phantasy world, which is in stark contrast to the real world in order to reflect upon social grievances and chasms: Expressionism [...] is a reaction against the atom-splitting of Impressionism, which reflects the iridescent ambiguities, disquieting diversity, and ephemeral hues of nature. At the same time Expressionism sets itself against Naturalism with its mania for recording mere facts, and its paltry aim of photographing nature or daily life. The world is there for all to see; it would be absurd to reproduce it purely and simply as it is. (Eisner 1969, p. 10) This is especially evident in Fritz Lang's revolutionary filming technique as the employed shot types and angles enhance angst and paranoia in the spectator. M and The Woman in the Window are also influenced by so-called 'Kammerspiel'-films of the 1920s, through which a new psychological realism emerged. The introduction of sound made it possible for Lang to represent the individual psyche through the character's speech. Fritz Lang uses universal symbols as a bridge between the character's inner state and the outer world. This also derives from German Expressionism, which aims to discuss low-life subject matters. In M, symbols are used to add further layers of meaning to the film and to foreshadow its plot, whereas in The Woman in the Window they mainly function as symbols of masculinity. In this essay, the influence of German Expressionism on Fritz Lang's films is discussed by closel

Author : Paul M. Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034845193

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The Cinema of Fritz Lang by Paul M. Jensen Pdf

Author : Fritz Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571126014

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Metropolis by Fritz Lang Pdf

Presents a brief examination of the film Metropolis, a comparison between the film and the book it was based on, movie stills, titles from the film, and excerpts from the novel

Author : Hugh Ferriss
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486139449

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferriss Pdf

The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.