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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Lang, Fritz (1890-1976) Summary
187 words, approx. 1 pages Widely influential filmmaker Fritz Lang fled Nazi Germany in 1932, eventually settling in Hollywood where he made over 20 films. His crime dramas, including thrillers like The Big Heat (1953), spawned generations of imitators, giving rise to the... summary from source:
 Fritz Lang Information
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Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism. His most...
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 Film - Dienst Fritz Lang Collection
07/05/2007: 575 words, approx. 2 pages Drei Stummfilme von Fritz Lang enthält diese insgesamt sechs DVDs umfassende Box der "Transit Classics - Deluxe Edition": "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler", "Spione" und "Frau im Mond", drei ungewöhnlich lange Werke, die heute zum Kanon des deutschen Kinos vor 1933 gehören. "Dr. Mabuse, der... summary from source:
The Economist (US) Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast.
09/06/1997: 890 words, approx. 3 pages FRITZ LANG: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST. By Patrick McGilligan. St Martin's Press; 560 pages; $30. Faber and Faber; K20. A SCREENWRITING colleague said of William Faulkner, a novelist often recruited by Hollywood as a speedy script doctor, "He didn't see movies and... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Marvelous Marvin
5/8/2007: 303 words, approx. 1 pagesLee Marvin (1924–1987) brought a distinctive brand of amused and often bemused virility to over 60 action films from 1951 to 1986, the best of which are being shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center from May 11 to May 24. Marvin won his... summary from source:
The New York Observer Arrogant Bastard's Contempt Enlivens Waspish Melodrama
3/20/2005: 878 words, approx. 3 pagesDarryl Zanuck loved the story but hated the choice of writer-director-an "arrogant bastard" with "four flops" to his name already, as he blustered to the producer, Sol C. Siegel. Zanuck wanted Ernst Lubitsch for the job, but Lubitsch already had three heart attacks to his...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Raymond Bellour
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In the following essay, Bellour provides an analysis of Lang's common cinematic techniques used throughout his career.
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Critical Essay by Ann Kaplan
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In the following essay, Kaplan asserts that while Lang correctly assessed the decline in male authority in the public and private spheres, he puts forth only one solution: a return to the old-style patriarchal authority, instead of a move toward something new and positive.
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Critical Essay by Gavin Lambert
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[One can see] that Lang's career in the classic German cinema, embracing as it did most of its tendencies, serves in itself as a kind of allegory. In a variety of stylistic disguises the same obsessions appear and recur—in the Nibelungen saga, which added to expressionism an architectural solidity and massive fresco-like sweep, fatality of legend; in the contemporary melodramas, The Spiders, the two Mabuse films, The Spy, fatality of power and violence; in M, fatality of the sadistic inner sel...
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