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Author : Fritz Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578065769
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Fritz Lang written by Fritz Lang and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history
Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452940649
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Fritz Lang written by Patrick McGilligan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lotte Eisner
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306802713
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Fritz Lang written by Lotte Eisner and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1986-08-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tom Gunning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718850
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Films of Fritz Lang written by Tom Gunning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David J. Levin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866693
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen written by David J. Levin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Minden
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131461
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Fritz Lang's Metropolis written by Michael Minden and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Bogdanovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780289796030
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Fritz Lang in America written by Peter Bogdanovich and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul M. Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cinema of Fritz Lang written by Paul M. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thea von Harbou
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486795675
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Metropolis written by Thea von Harbou and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thea Von Harbou
Publisher : Castle Keep Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918736352
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Metropolis written by Thea Von Harbou and published by Castle Keep Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joe McElhaney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470670975
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Fritz Lang written by Joe McElhaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fritz Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571126019
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Metropolis written by Fritz Lang and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Frederick W. Ott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Films of Fritz Lang written by Frederick W. Ott and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reynold Humphries
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fritz Lang written by Reynold Humphries and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thea von Harbou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book M written by Thea von Harbou and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerd Gemnden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231166796
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Continental Strangers written by Gerd Gemnden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.
Author : Vincent Brook
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548330
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Driven to Darkness written by Vincent Brook and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days, the American film industry has attracted European artists. With the rise of Hitler, filmmakers of conscience in Germany and other countries, particularly those of Jewish origin, found it difficult to survive and fledùfor their work and their livesùto the United States. Some had trouble adapting to Hollywood, but many were celebrated for their cinematic contributions, especially to the dark shadows of film noir. Driven to Darkness explores the influence of Jewish TmigrT directors and the development of this genre. While filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, and Edward G. Ulmer have been acknowledged as crucial to the noir canon, the impact of their Jewishness on their work has remained largely unexamined until now. Through lively and original analyses of key films, Vincent Brook penetrates the darkness, shedding new light on this popular film form and the artists who helped create it.
