Fritz Lang / by Lotte H. Eisner ; [translated from the German MS. by Gertrud Mander and edited by David Robinson]
New York: Da Capo, 1976Description: 416pages : illustrations (black & white); 23cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43292ISBN: 0306802716Subject(s): Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation | German cinema films Directing Lang, Fritz 1890-1976 BiographiesDDC classification: 791.43 LAN| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Bibliography: pages 405-406. _ List of films: pages407-413
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