Fritz Lang

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by Lotte H. Eisner

Type

Biographies

Subject

Director > Fritz Lang

Keywords

Fritz Lang, director

Publishing date

1977

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 416 pages
6 ¾ x 9 inches (17 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-19-519912-X
978-0-19-519912-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

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