Fritz Lang: The Image and the Look

by Stephen Jenkins (Editor)

Fritz Lang has traditionally been characterised as a film-maker preoccupied with fate, an essential pessimist whose films represent a bleak view of the universe where man grapples with his personal destiny and loses. This book aims to change that view, challenging the notion of Lang as a chronicler of twentieth century paranoia and tracing in his films not a single, unchanging vision of the world, but a multiplicity of narrative and formal perspectives. It provides the most complete record yet published of this fascinating director's long career, from Germany in the 1920s to the long interlude in Hollywood and the final return to Germany.

173 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1981