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.
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