Author : Michael Minden
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781571131461
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 : Thea von Harbou
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486795675
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 : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452940649
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 : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1844577104
Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months' filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for director Fritz Lang's increasingly extravagant ambitions. Lang, inspired by the skyline of New York, created a whole new vision of cities. One of the greatest works of science fiction, the film also tells human stories about love and family. Thomas Elsaesser explores the cultural phenomenon of Metropolis: its different versions (there is no definitive one), its changing meanings, and its role as a database of twentieth-century imagery and ideologies. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Elsaesser discusses the impact of the 27 minutes of 'lost' footage discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008, and incorporated in a restored edition, which premiered in 2010.
Author : Bob Carlton
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573695995
Inspired by Shakepeare's The Tempest, this juke box musical is packed with rock 'n' roll classics such as Heard it Through the Grapevine, Young Girl, Good Vibrations, and Gloria. Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D'Illyria where a sci fi version of The Tempest set to rock and roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the product of Prospero's Id, whose tentacles penetrate the space craft.
Author : Thea Von Harbou
Publisher : Castle Keep Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780918736352
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 : Fritz Lang
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781578065769
A collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history
Author : Hugh Ferriss
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486139441
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.
Author : Tom Gunning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1838718850
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 : Lotte Eisner
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 1986-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780306802713
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.
