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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9780851703701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94894665
Product Key Features
Book Title
M
Author
Anton Kaes
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
190mm
Item Width
135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Anton Kaes
Series Title
Bfi Film Classics
Editor
Fritz Lang
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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