The Imagined Film of Fritz Lang
Abstract
Fritz Lang, one of Germany’s foremost film directors of the 1920s, had repeatedly spoken of his dramatic escape from Nazi Germany. This story had been repeated in various surprisingly different or modified variants. However, the historical data prove that the director’s story was made up. Kłys explores the story as a text that has an important context, which in turn reveals its various overtones. The story of Lang would be to be his “imagined film” containing all elements typical of his cinema.
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Fritz Lang, interwar period, German cinemaReferences
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Tomasz Kłyskwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lodz Poland
Adiunkt w Instytucie Teorii Literatury, Teatru i Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Autor książek Film fikcji i jego dominanty ( 1999) i Dekada doktora Mabuse: Nieme filmy Fritza Langa (w druku), artykułów naukowych, recenzji filmowych i naukowych publikowanych m in. w „Kwartalniku Filmowym”, „Studiach Filmoznawczych”, „Zagadnieniach Rodzajów Literackich”, miesięczniku „W drodze”.
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