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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher British Film Institute
- Date of Publication 25 March 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781839022913
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages112 pages
- Size 188x134x16 mm
- Weight 180 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 60 bw illus 190
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Short description:
A new edition of Anton Kaes' study of Fritz Lang's 1931 film M in the BFI Film Classics series.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword to the 2021 Edition
Introduction
1. Berlin, 1931
2. Serial Murder, Serial Culture
3. Total Mobilisation
4. Before the Law
5. Los Angeles, 1951
Appendix: The Missing Scene
Notes
Credits
Bibliography
