Fritz Lang

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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.

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"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 ..."

More papers on Fritz Lang:

• Film Review # 109223 : "Demonic" Obsession in Fritz Lang's "M" and "Fury"
• Film Review # 119892 : "Mobs in Fritz Lang's Films"
• Film Review # 110891 : "Metropolis"

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