MURNAU, FRIEDRICH W.

frēˈdrĭkh moorˈnou, 1889–1931, German film director, b. as Friedrich W. Plumpe. He began directing films in Germany in 1919 and went to Hollywood in 1927. Murnau's films, especially those made in collaboration with writer Carl Meyer, are noted for their fluid, expressionistic use of the camera to depict states of mind, an alternative stylistic model to the editing-centered works of Sergei Eisenstein. His best-known works are Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and the American films Sunrise (1927), Our Daily Bread (1930), and Tabu (1931).

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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Includes: The Mazarin Stone; Thor Bridge; The Creeping Man; The Sussex Vampire; The Three Garridebs; The Illustrious Client; The Three Gables; The Blanched Soldier; The Lion's Mane; The Retired Colourman; The Veiled Lodger; Shoscombe Old Place
Book by Arthur Conan Doyle, W. W. Robson; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Detective And Mystery Stories, English, Fiction, Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious Character)--Fiction, Private Investigators--England--Fiction
...1814-73 . Transylvania : a partly mountainous area in the north of Romania formerly in Hungary . pure lunacy : Friedrich Murnau 1889 1931 directed the sensational Nosferatu 1922 , a silent film deriving without acknowledgement from Stoker Dracula...
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German and Austrian Expressionism in the United States, 1900-1939: Chronology and Bibliography
Book by E. R. Hagemann; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Arts, Modern--20th Century--Austria, Arts, Modern--20th Century--Germany, Arts, Modern--20th Century--United States, Expressionism (Art)--Austria, Expressionism (Art)--Germany, Expressionism (Art)--United States--Bibliography, Expressionism (Art)--United States--Chronology
...13 2 , 15 , 17 , 26 , 44 , 48 , 67 , 80 , 104 , 120 Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm F. W. , 48 , 64 Mussolini, Benito, 113 Myrbach, Felician...61 , 67 , 104 , 134 Nebel, Otto, 129 Nelson, W. H. de B., 20 2 Neumann, J. B. 62 , 71 2...
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The Oxford History of World Cinema
Book by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Motion Pictures--History
...and Wiene, Ludwig Berger and F. W. Murnau, Carl Mayer, Carl Froelich...epics all of Fritz Langs and three Murnau films, as well as ten by other...Richard Oswald, Fritz Lang, Friedrich W. Murnau, and the PAGU-Davidson group...
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Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
Book by Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg; Berghahn Books, 1999
Subjects: Wiene, Robert--Criticism And Interpretation
...Julie , 10 Molnar, Ferenc, 121 Moscow Art Theater, 13 , 99 , 100 mude Tod, Der Tired Death , 45 Mailer, Friedrich, 22 n21 Murnau, F. W., ix , x , xiii , 1 , 11 , 45 , 55 , 115 Mussolini, Benito, 72 N Nacht der Konigin Isabeau, Die The...
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Film and the Critical Eye
Book by Dennis DeNitto, William Herman; Macmillan, 1975
Subjects: Motion Picture Plays--History And Criticism
...The Last Laugh Der Letzte Mann Directed by F. W. MURNAU In Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, the greatest film-director the Germans have...NIGHT WATCHMAN Georg John CREDITS DIRECTOR F. W. Murnau PRODUCER Erich Pommer ORIGINAL STORY AND SCENARIO...
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journal articles on: Murnau Friedrich W  - 4 results

 
 
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The Contribution of F.w. Murnau's Nosferatu to the Evolution of Dracula
Journal article by Wayne E. Hensley; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2002
Subjects: Motion picture criticism, Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm, Science fairs
The Contribution of F.w. Murnaus Nosferatu to the Evolution...film Nosferatu (1922) directed by Friedrich Murnau. But, very substantial plot and character...clarification is contained in scene 172 where Murnau has written: Nosferatu raises his...
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Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula
Journal article by Saviour Catania; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Motion picture criticism, Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm, Novels, Stoker, Abraham (1847-1912), Writers
...credits of F. W. Murnaus Nosferatu2...however, for Murnau takes more than...theme from, say, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque...should pivot her Murnau/Friedrich beach parallel...Stoker, and not to Friedrich, that Murnau owes his inspiration...
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Taming Impulses: Murnau's Sunrise and the Exorcism of Expressionism
Journal article by Brad Prager; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 28, 2000
Subjects: Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm, Psychology
...31). On the other hand, Murnau, in his later works, often...of a large sum of money. For Murnau, the antidote to Expressionistic...cinema; a tradition in which Murnau, as well as Fritz Lang and G. W. Pabst, is always understood...
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Dracula Meets the Zeitgeist: Nosferatu (1922) as Film Adaptation
Journal article by Lane Roth; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 7, 1979
Subjects: Folklore, Government subsidies, Motion picture directors & producers, Politics, Psychology, World War I
...credit to Stoker, but director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and scenarist Henrik Galeen used...operative in Germany at the time that Murnau was making his film. This will...dramas."7 Significantly, F. W. Murnau directed the Schauerfilm Nosferatu...


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The Film Explosion
Magazine article by Bob Fisher, David Heuring, George Turner, Martha Winterhalter; American Cinematographer, Vol. 70, July 1989
...the more dominant factors in the works of Friedrich Ermler, Grigori Kozintzev, Leonid Trauberg...Kinematograph he had purchased in London from R. W. Paul. The films were a great hit with...producer Stanley Crick, and writer-director W. J. Lincoln. Visitors from other countries...


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newspaper articles on: Murnau Friedrich W  - 3 results

 
 
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Fox Celebrates Murnau and Borzage
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 8, 2009
Subjects: Gaynor, Janet--Achievements and awards, Motion pictures--Achievements and awards, Movies--Achievements and awards
Fox Celebrates Murnau and Borzage. Byline...recent holiday season: Murnau, Borzage and Fox, a retrospective...two men, the German F.W. Murnau and American Frank Borzage...Fox was so impressed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus inventive...
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F.W. Murnau's Symphonic Vision
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 2, 2002
Subjects: Murnau, F.W.
F.W. Murnaus Symphonic Vision...fellow officer described Lt. Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe, destined...to movie posterity as F.W. Murnau, as "a curious mixture...manufacturer from Westphalia, Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe (he adopted...
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Murnau's 'Faust' Still a Triumph
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 31, 2003
...Metropolis" and F.W. Murnaus "Faust...distributes other Murnau classics: "Nosferatu...Ludwig Kirchner, a Murnau contemporary...the swan song of Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe as...Directed by F.W. Murnau. Screenplay by Hans...


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encyclopedia articles on: Murnau Friedrich W  - 1 result

 
 
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Murnau, Friedrich W
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MURNAU, FRIEDRICH W. fre drikh moor nou, 1889 1931, German film director, b. as Friedrich W. Plumpe. He began directing films in Germany in 1919 and went to Hollywood...


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