M

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ISBN: 9780851703701

ISBN-10: 0851703704

ISBN-13: 9780851703701

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anton Kaes, Fritz Lang

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 2/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Anton Kaes is Chancellor Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Berlin, 1931



Serial Murder, Serial Culture



Total Mobilisation



Before the Law



Los Angeles, 1951


Appendix: The Missing Scene


Notes


Credits


Bibliography