Fritz Lang
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fritz Lang, the director behind films such as Metropolis, Mabuse the Gambler and M in Weimar Germany and Fury and The Big Heat in Hollywood.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-born film director Fritz Lang (1890-1976), who was one of the most celebrated film-makers of the 20th century. He worked first in Weimar Germany, creating a range of films including the startling and subversive Mabuse the Gambler and the iconic but ruinously expensive Metropolis before arguably his masterpiece, M, with both the police and the underworld hunting for a child killer in Berlin, his first film with sound. The rise of the Nazis prompted Lang's move to Hollywood where he developed some of his Weimar themes in memorable and disturbing films such as Fury and The Big Heat.
With
Stella Bruzzi
Professor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London
Joe McElhaney
Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York
And
Iris Luppa
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the Division of Film and Media at London South Bank University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
READING LIST
Stella Bruzzi, 鈥業mperfect Justice: Fritz Lang鈥檚 Fury (1936) and Cinema鈥檚 Use of the Trial Form鈥� (Law and Humanities, Taylor and Francis Online, Volume 4 (1), 2010)
Ian Cameron (ed.), The Movie Book of Film Noir (Cassell Illustrated, 1994), especially 鈥楩ilm Noir and Suppressive Narrative: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt鈥� by Douglas Pye
Paul Coates, The Gorgon鈥檚 Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism and the Image of Horror (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Lotte Eisner, Fritz Lang (University of California Press, 1977)
Thomas Elsaesser, Weimar Cinema and After: Germany鈥檚 Historical Imaginary (Routledge, 2000)
Thomas Elsaesser, BFI Classics: Metropolis (BFI Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds.), Close Up 03 (Wallflower Press, 2008), especially 鈥榃eimar Cinema鈥� by Iris Luppa
Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision And Modernity (BFI Publishing, 2000)
Anton Kaes, BFI Film Classics: M (BFI Publishing, 2000)
Iris Luppa and Douglas Pye, 鈥楳: Leading the Blind鈥� (Movie 2, 2011)
Joe McElhaney (ed.), A Companion to Fritz Lang (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Joe McElhaney, The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (Suny Press, 2006)
Patrick McGilligan, Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (Faber and Faber, 1997)
Douglas Pye, 鈥楽eeing By Glimpses: Fritz Lang鈥檚 The Blue Gardenia鈥� (CineAction! 13-14, 1988)
Michael Walker, 鈥榃hile the City sleeps鈥� (CineAction! 29, 1992)
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