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The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

By Tom Gunning

Book information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2000
ISBN
0851707424, 9780851707426
Google Books ID
X3VZAAAAMAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
122 MB (127659479 bytes)
Pages
528\540
DPI
125
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2021-01-01 08:27:15

Description

In this remarkable new study, the renowned historian and theorist of early cinema turns his attention to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. Gunning examines the films not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lange's mastery of cinematic set design, composition, and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative that can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin, and Kracauer.

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