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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,

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Author
Mcelhaney, Joseph
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781118587232
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Sports, Literary Fiction

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