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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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."
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.
Download or read book Chasing My Dreams written by Fritz Lang and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are stories about the dreams of a German boy named Fritz and his family living in fear and anguish in the City of Wiesbaden Germany during World War II. Night after night, they would run to safety to the nearby air-raid shelter until one day when their mother took the family into the country to Bavaria to wait out the war. In 1945, the mother and children walked for twelve days from Bavaria back to their home in Wiesbaden. They continued to live in an American militaristic zone for several years until the new German currency arrived and their lives took a turn for the better. In 1952, Fritz began his apprenticeship and completed it in 1955. In 1962, after years of working several different jobs, he decided to make the journey to the promised land, the United States of America.
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
Download or read book The Metropolis of Tomorrow written by Hugh Ferriss and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
