Fritz Lang: Interviews - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1578065771 ISBN 13 : 9781578065776

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2003

Synopsis

The films of Fritz Lang depict an entrapping, claustrophobic world in which people are controlled by larger forces. His overriding theme is the struggle against fate and against the traits of human nature that doom us.

His life and work spanned six decades of film history-from the silent era through the golden age of German Expressionism of the 1920s and the classic studio system in Hollywood to the rise of the international co-production. In Hollywood he worked for every major studio except Disney. He made blockbusters, modest B movies, and everything in between. Among his films are classics of German cinema-including Metropolis and M. In America he made some of the most notable crime movies (Fury), noir films (The Big Heat), and Westerns (The Return of Frank James) of the studio era. Despite the different time periods, nations, and genres in which he worked, his films remain stylistically consistent.

Lang (1890-1976), a notoriously difficult interviewee, granted relatively few interviews apart from short publicity exchanges in the promotion of his films. Fully aware of his public persona, he was a canny self-promoter who carefully constructed half-truths and myths about himself.

This fascinating collection covers his conversations about his life and his works over a period of forty years. They reveal how cinema for Lang was an intensely personal art. "For me," he said, "cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. I've often written that it is the art form of our century."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barry Keith Grant is professor emeritus of film studies at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is author or editor of many books, including Fritz Lang: Interviews, published by University Press of Mississippi, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. An Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he serves as the editor of the film and media studies list for Wayne State University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1578065771
• ISBN 13: 9781578065776
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Éditeur: Grant Barry Keith
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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