Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang,almost alone among his fellow continental refugees, was able to make outstanding films in both his native Germany and his adopted Hollywood. The director ofMetropolisandMandDr. Mabusecame to America in 1934 and began a long and distinguished career that included such films asYou Only Live Once, The Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street, Ministry of Fear, Rancho Notorious,andThe Big Heat.He is a key figure in the history of film noir, bringing to the screen a fatalist's vision of a menacing world of criminals, misfits, and helpless victims, and providing a distinctive visual look to every film he directed. This film-by-film study of Lang's oeuvre by one of the great film historians combines personal insightEisner and Lang had a long standing friendshipwith deep historical understanding of Lang's roots in German culture and cinema. Both true modernists, Eisner and Lang are perfectly matched, as this book clearly demonstrates.Eisner, Lotte H. is the author of 'Fritz Lang' with ISBN 9780306802713 and ISBN 0306802716.