LANG, FRITZ

läng, 1890–1976, German-American film director, b. Vienna. His silent and early sound films, such as Metropolis (1926), are marked by brilliant expressionist technique. He gained worldwide acclaim with M (1933), a study of a child molester and murderer. After directing 15 films, Lang fled Nazi Germany (1933) to avoid collaborating with the government and settled in the United States. His 20 Hollywood films continued his exploration of criminality and the cruel fate that can overtake the unwary. His notable American works include Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Hangmen Also Die (1943), The Big Heat (1953), and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956).

See studies by P. Bogdanovich (1967), L. Eisner (1972), R. A. Armour (1978), F. W. Ott (1979), S. Jenkins (1981), C. Schnauber (1986), P. McGilligan (1997), and T. Gunning (2000).

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books on: Lang Fritz  - 3325 results

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Fritz
Book by Martin Shepard; Saturday Review Press, 1975
Subjects: Gestalt Therapy, Perls, Frederick S, Psychiatrists--Biography
...above all, Wilhelm Reich. His theatrical contacts extended back to the great German directors Max Reinhardt and Fritz Lang, through writers Christopher Isherwood and James Agee, actors Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and dancer Ann Halprin...
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Otto Dix, Life and Work
Book by Fritz Löffler, R. J. Hollingdale; Holmes & Meier, 1982
Subjects: Dix, Otto--1891-1969, Painters--Germany (West)--Biography
Otto Dix Life and work Fritz Loffler Otto Dix Life and Work...Cataloging in Publication Data Loffler, Fritz, 1899- Otto Dix, life and work...her youth she wrote poetry.Her nephew Fritz Amann, who lived in Naumburg, was a...
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Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet
Book by Fritz Redlich; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Austria--Social Conditions, Heads Of State--Germany--Biography, Heads Of State--Germany--Psychology, Hitler, Adolf--1889-1945--Mental Health, Hitler, Adolf--1889-1945--Psychology, National Socialism--Psychological Aspects
...Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet Fritz Redlich, M.D. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Redlich, Fritz, 1910- Hitler: diagnosis of a destructive prophet / Fritz Redlich. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...
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Light Rays: James Joyce and Modernism
Book by Richard Ellmann, Morris Beja, Morton P. Levitt, Robert Boyle, Fritz Senn, Zack Bowen, Leslie Fiedler, Hugh Kenner, Heyward Ehrlich; New Horizon Press, 1984
Subjects: Joyce, James--1882-1941--Criticism And Interpretation, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Influence, Modernism (Literature)
...RICHARD ELLMANN Morris Beja Morton P. Levitt Robert Boyle Fritz Senn Zack Bowen Leslie Fiedler Hugh Kenner EDITED BY...He When Hes at Home? 58 Fritz Senn: Remodeling Homer 70...
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Diverse Responses to Common Challenges
Book by Fritz W. Scharpf, Vivien A. Schmidt; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Labor Policy, Social Policy, Welfare Economics, Women--Employment
...Responses to Common Challenges Edited by Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt Great...the Volkswagen Stiftung, a grant from the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung for a smaller coordinated...and organizational support throughout. Fritz W. Scharpf Vivien A. Schmidt Cologne...
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Rewriting Allegory with a Vengeance: Textual Strategies in Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious
Journal article by Florianne Wild; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 35, 2002
Subjects: Allegory--Analysis, Filmmakers--Analysis, Lang, Fritz--Conduct of life, Western Rancho Notorious (Motion picture)--Analysis
...contradiction to it. As a genre filmmaker, Fritz Lang constantly theorizes the medium he...upon the frame containing the name Fritz Lang creates a rebus inviting us to see...Jenkins, Steven. "Fear and Desire." Fritz Lang: The Image and the Look. Ed. S. Jenkins...
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Lovers, Filmmakers, and Nazis: Fritz Lang's Last Two Movies as Autobiography
Journal article by Michael Tratner; Biography, Vol. 29, 2006
Subjects: Filmmakers--Biography, Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Works, Lang, Fritz--Biography, Lang, Fritz--Criticism and interpretation, Lang, Fritz--Works, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Biography, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Works, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, National socialism and motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, National socialism--Portrayals, The Indian Tomb (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
...In the 1930s, the filmmaker Fritz Lang fled Nazi Germany and remade himself...WORKS CITED Bogdanovich, Peter. Fritz Lang in America. London: Studio Vista...1-21. Gunning, Tom. The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity...
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The Sources of Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen
Journal article by Stanley R. Hauer; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 18, 1990
Subjects: Folklore, Lang, Fritz, Motivation, Poetry, Politics
...Nibelungen by Stanley R. Hauer Fritz Langs two-part film Die Nibelungen...animated sequence, created for Lang by Walter Ruttman, of Kriemhilds...of the garbled narrative of Lang and Harbous next film. Metropolis...thirteenth century and all of which Lang and Harbou may have read: 1...
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The Siegfried Legend and the Silent Screens.... Fritz Lang's Interpretation of a Hero Saga
Journal article by Victoria M. Stiles; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 8, 1980
Subjects: Lang, Fritz, Motion pictures, Murders & murder attempts
...by Victoria M. Stiles Fritz Langs two-part film epic Die...of the German silent cinema. Lang began his monumental work in...interpretation of the Siegfried legend Lang assimilated literature dealing...mythological allusions). Furthermore, Lang was familiar with 19th century...
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From Berlin to Hollywood: Echoes of Expressionism in Fritz Lang's the Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street
Journal article by David Fine; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Lang, Fritz, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers
...critical attention and admiration Fritz Langs German and American films...German immigrant contemporaries, Lang, I believe, kept alive the Weimar...American crime melodramas. Lang fled Germany in 1933 for Paris...dramas by directors, who, like Lang, were political exiles from...
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magazine articles on: Lang Fritz  - 139 results

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Auld Lang Syne: A Restored Print of the Silent Classic Metropolis Includes Footage Not Seen since 1927
Magazine article by Rex Roberts; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 5, 2002
Subjects: Lang, Fritz--Production and direction, Metropolis (Motion picture)--Publishing, Motion picture industry--Publishing
Auld Lang Syne: a restored print of the...Wells declared the film "silly"--Fritz Langs Metropolis now is revered...scientists and demented robots. Lang shot his masterpiece over the...hands must be the heart." Lang described Metropolis as a battle...
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Zoom with a View FILM
Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 129, January 17, 2000
Subjects: Filmmakers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lang, Fritz--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Scarlet Street (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...JONATHAN ROMNEY puts Fritz Lang in perspective Its not easy to get a handle on Fritz Langs identity as a film...The Nature of the Beast, Lang "lived his life with the...near-mythical images of Lang. One is of the man who...
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Cahiers Back in the Day
Magazine article by Dave Kehr; Film Comment, Vol. 37, September 2001
Subjects: Bazin, Andre--Influence, Cahiers du Cinema (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Film criticism--History, Filmmakers--Influence, French movies--Criticism and interpretation, Lang, Fritz--Influence, Motion pictures, French--Criticism and interpretation, Movie criticism--History, Movie directors--Influence, Movie producers (Persons)--Influence, Rivette, Jacques--Influence
...for a whole range of "auteurs" who came to represent the Cahiers taste: Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Bay, Frank Tashlin, Fritz Lang, Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, and even a few non-Hollywoodians, supremely including Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini...
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The Greening of Fritz Haeg: Architect Fritz Haeg Was a Manhattan Power Player Who Designed All the Right Spaces. Now He's Creating the Good Life in Los Angeles with a Hip School, Edible Landscapes, and One Really Gay House
Magazine article by Rachel Dowd; The Advocate, April 10, 2007
Subjects: Architects--Works, Gays--Homes and haunts, Haeg, Fritz--Works
...a fan, considers Haegs take on his sexuality a sign of evolution: "Fritz is of that model of Were not queer; were postqueer. Homosexuality...One of my clients said, Oh, my God, this is just like the new Helmut Lang collection with the holes."
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Heartbreak City
Magazine article by Steve Vineberg; The Christian Century, Vol. 119, September 25, 2002
Subjects: Metropolis (Motion picture)
...city by Steve Vineberg FRITZ LANG was already the most celebrated filmmaker...moviegoing experiences. Metropolis, which Lang wrote in collaboration with his wife...it except hang his actors off it. Lang knows exactly what to do: he seesaws...
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newspaper articles on: Lang Fritz  - 104 results

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Lang Thriller Resurfaces with 'House by the River'; '50S Film Explores Sex, Class Clashes
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 8, 2005
Subjects: Lang, Fritz
...archivists at Kino Video (www.kino.com) rescue a quality Fritz Lang thriller from undeserved obscurity with their fresh release...include an image gallery and interview with producer/Fritz Lang scholar Pierre Rissient. Kino also issues the same directors...
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Lang's 'Nibelungen' Still Fascinates; Mythic Film Available Now on Video
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 27, 2004
Subjects: Lang, Fritz
...about an illustrious predecessor, Fritz Langs "Die Nibelungen," which recently...culminated in the marriage of Mr. Lang and his screenwriter, Thea von Harbou...Siegfried" and "Kriemhilds Revenge," by Fritz Lang. Screenplay by Thea von Harbau, based...
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Revisiting the Silent 'Metropolis'; Visionary Impact Comes through Loud and Clear
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 27, 2002
...conclude a free retrospective of Fritz Lang silents at the National Gallery...episodes) CREDITS: Directed by Fritz Lang. Screenplay by Mr. Lang and Thea von Harbou. Cinematography...evil robot of the film. Director Fritz Langs futuristic view of the city...
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66-Year-Old Film Is Still Chillingly Marvelous
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, August 29, 1997
...Durably gripping in its 66th year, Fritz Langs masterfully sardonic crime thriller...scenic design and polemical melodrama, Lang took his time adapting to sound...morbidity.) CREDITS: Directed by Fritz Lang. Screenplay by Thea von Harbou...
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Critics Choice
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 28, 2008
...THE first of a short run of films directed by the great Fritz Lang, this one isan old-fashioned swashbuckler set in 18th century...stuffsilk shirts, tights, lusty duels and not much sign of Lang at all. DISPATCHES: THE MOBILE PHONE RIP-OFF, 8pm, Ch4...
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encyclopedia articles on: Lang Fritz  - 3 results

 
 
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Lang, Fritz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LANG, FRITZ lang, 1890 1976, German-American film director, b. Vienna. His silent and early...1933), a study of a child molester and murderer. After directing 15 films, Lang fled Nazi Germany (1933) to avoid collaborating with the government and...
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Motion Pictures
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...such as G. W. Pabst, F. W. Murnau , Max Ophuls, and Fritz Lang , brought the medium to new heights of imaginative production...1996), Satoshi Kons Perfect Blue (1997), and Rintaros Fritz Lang inspired Metropolis (2000). Bibliography See...
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Motion Picture Photography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...during the 1920s, as filmmakers worked to bring expressionism , then a movement in drama and painting, to their medium. Fritz Lang and F. W. Murnau tried through manipulation of the image to portray the psychic and emotional states of their films...


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