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M: BFI Film Classics

Autor Anton Kaes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2021
Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an international star. Lang's vision of a city gripped with fear, haunted by surveillance and total mobillization, is still remarkably powerful today. And 'M' resonates too in the serial-killer genre which is so prominent in contemporary cinema. 'M' speaks to us as a timeless classic, but also as a Weimar film that has too often been isolated from its political and cultural context. In this groundbreaking book, Anton Kaes reconnects 'M''s much-studied formal brilliance to its significance as an event in 1931 Germany, recapturing the film's extraordinary social and symbolic energy. Interweaving close reading with cultural history, Kaes reconstitutes 'M' as a crucial modernist artwork. In addition he analyzes Joseph Losey's 1951 film noir remake and, in an appendix, publishes for the first time 'M''s missing scene.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781839022913
ISBN-10: 1839022914
Pagini: 112
Ilustrații: 60 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția British Film Institute
Seria BFI Film Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The film's themes of surveillance, paranoia and the scapegoating of marginalized groups has strong contemporary resonances

Notă biografică

Anton Kaes is Chancellor's Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is the author and editor of books including From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film (1989); The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (1994); A New History of German Literature (2004); Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005, (2007); Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Persistence of War (2009), winner of the German Studies Association/DAAD book prize in 2010 and the MLA Scaglione Prize for "outstanding scholarly work" in 2011, and The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933, (2016), winner of the Award of Distinction from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2017.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsForeword to the 2021 EditionIntroduction1. Berlin, 19312. Serial Murder, Serial Culture3. Total Mobilisation4. Before the Law5. Los Angeles, 1951Appendix: The Missing SceneNotesCreditsBibliography