Fritz Lang
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0306802716
ISBN13:9780306802713
Release Date:August 1986
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
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In-depth Fritz with pictures
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
You already now something of Fritz Lang or you would not be reading this. Lotte Eisner goes further in depth in which Fritz is and what he has accomplished through the years. There is a small Fritz Lang: Autobiography Then the book is chronologically divided between the German years 1919-1933 and the American period of 1936-1956. Then it goes to the German years of 1959-60. Because I have a large collection of German silent films this book is a must in helping understand those messages that are not intrinsic to the viewer.
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