{"product_id":"fritz-lang-interviews-paperback","title":"Fritz Lang: Interviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Keith Grant\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe films of Fritz Lang depict an entrapping, claustrophobic world in which people are controlled by larger forces. His overriding theme is the struggle against fate and against the traits of human nature that doom us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His life and work spanned six decades of film history-from the silent era through the golden age of German Expressionism of the 1920s and the classic studio system in Hollywood to the rise of the international co-production. In Hollywood he worked for every major studio except Disney. He made blockbusters, modest B movies, and everything in between. Among his films are classics of German cinema-including \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eM\u003c\/i\u003e. In America he made some of the most notable crime movies (\u003ci\u003eFury\u003c\/i\u003e), noir films (\u003ci\u003eThe Big Heat\u003c\/i\u003e), and Westerns (\u003ci\u003eThe Return of Frank James\u003c\/i\u003e) of the studio era. Despite the different time periods, nations, and genres in which he worked, his films remain stylistically consistent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lang (1890-1976), a notoriously difficult interviewee, granted relatively few interviews apart from short publicity exchanges in the promotion of his films. Fully aware of his public persona, he was a canny self-promoter who carefully constructed half-truths and myths about himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This fascinating collection covers his conversations about his life and his works over a period of forty years. They reveal how cinema for Lang was an intensely personal art. For me, he said, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. I've often written that it is the art form of our century.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Keith Grant\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University in St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada, is author of \u003ci\u003eVoyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Film Studies Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDocumenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFilm Genre Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 195\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.22 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113849131143,"sku":"9781578065776","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5cb98c33840a5bd45b13b964d81be354.webp?v=1732492918","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/fritz-lang-interviews-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}