Patrick McGilligan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676552
- eISBN:
- 9781452948942
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676552.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his ...
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The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? This book includes the results of many years of research in government and film archives, and investigations of the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This biography reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.Less
The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? This book includes the results of many years of research in government and film archives, and investigations of the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This biography reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.
Patrick McGilligan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676552
- eISBN:
- 9781452948942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676552.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter details events in Fritz Lang’s life from 1911 to 1918. Lang left home either late in 1910 or early 1911 and began visiting galleries and museums in Nuremberg, Munich, and Frankfurt, ...
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This chapter details events in Fritz Lang’s life from 1911 to 1918. Lang left home either late in 1910 or early 1911 and began visiting galleries and museums in Nuremberg, Munich, and Frankfurt, before journeying down the Rhine to Belgium and landing at his destination of Brussels. Arriving with twenty-five francs in his pocket, Lang began to sketch postcards, caricatures, watercolors, and easel art, selling them to tourists for coffee and bread. By April 1913, Lang was living in Paris, nurturing a dream of becoming a painter. He enlisted in the Austrian military on January 12, 1915 and was wounded in battle in June 1916. The records are vague on this point, but injury could be the eye wound that necessitated his famous—some might say notorious—monocle. It was at this juncture that the temporarily blinded Lang, lying in bed in a Vienna hospital, began envisioning a future and profession for himself in motion pictures.Less
This chapter details events in Fritz Lang’s life from 1911 to 1918. Lang left home either late in 1910 or early 1911 and began visiting galleries and museums in Nuremberg, Munich, and Frankfurt, before journeying down the Rhine to Belgium and landing at his destination of Brussels. Arriving with twenty-five francs in his pocket, Lang began to sketch postcards, caricatures, watercolors, and easel art, selling them to tourists for coffee and bread. By April 1913, Lang was living in Paris, nurturing a dream of becoming a painter. He enlisted in the Austrian military on January 12, 1915 and was wounded in battle in June 1916. The records are vague on this point, but injury could be the eye wound that necessitated his famous—some might say notorious—monocle. It was at this juncture that the temporarily blinded Lang, lying in bed in a Vienna hospital, began envisioning a future and profession for himself in motion pictures.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226431642
- eISBN:
- 9780226431659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226431659.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The fact that liberal satire found much of its support from Upper Bohemians and exurbanites—those Americans who became “flaming liberals,” as critic Vance Packard caustically observed, “in the safety ...
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The fact that liberal satire found much of its support from Upper Bohemians and exurbanites—those Americans who became “flaming liberals,” as critic Vance Packard caustically observed, “in the safety of their patios and favorite bars”—was not lost on the more politically astute, critically inclined satirists. This chapter demonstrates how Monocle and the Outsider's Newsletter, Jules Feiffer, and comedian Mort Sahl began to realize the critical potential of liberal satire during the early 1960s.Less
The fact that liberal satire found much of its support from Upper Bohemians and exurbanites—those Americans who became “flaming liberals,” as critic Vance Packard caustically observed, “in the safety of their patios and favorite bars”—was not lost on the more politically astute, critically inclined satirists. This chapter demonstrates how Monocle and the Outsider's Newsletter, Jules Feiffer, and comedian Mort Sahl began to realize the critical potential of liberal satire during the early 1960s.
