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Fritz Lang


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Fritz Lang
Dsicusses the director's effect on American cinema.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) | 11 sources | 2002 United States


Paper Summary:

Discusses the director's effect on America cinema. His use of irony, camera, lighting and story techniques to evoke a sense of horror. His early life and career in Germany & German Expressionism. His silent films. His Hollywood career. His film style. Themes of his movies; "M," "Metropolis." Lang's influence on Hitchcock.

From the Paper:

"Movie poster for Fritz Lang s M (1931).

It was only a little over one hundred years ago, in 1891, when Thomas Alva Edison patented his kinetograph camera and kinetoscope viewer ( Significant Developments. . . , 2001). Since then film has gone from being a ten-minute black and white novelty that depicts people leaving a building after work, as the Lumiere Brothers filmed in Paris in 1895 (Yahnke, 1996), to 120-minute Hollywood color productions that not only tell stories, but do so with amazing special effects, not all of those produced by the camera.

Although it may seem as if the film industry has always been rooted in the United States, many creative breakthroughs in storyline, camera angle, lighting, etc., were actually made in ..."

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Fritz Lang (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Fritz-Lang/24776

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"Fritz Lang" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Fritz-Lang/24776>




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