- Title Pages
- Praise forFritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
-
Prologue 1976 -
Chapter 1 1890–1911 -
Chapter 2 1911–1918 -
Chapter 3 1918–1921 -
Chapter 4 1921–1922 -
Chapter 5 1923–1924 -
Chapter 6 1925–1927 -
Chapter 7 1928–1929 -
Chapter 8 1930–1931 -
Chapter 9 1932–1933 -
Chapter 10 1933–1934 -
Chapter11 1934–1936 -
Chapter 12 1936–1938 -
Chapter 13 1939–1941 -
Chapter 14 1941–1945 -
Chapter 15 1945–1946 -
Chapter 16 1946–1947 -
Chapter 17 1948–1952 -
Chapter18 1952–1953 -
Chapter 19 1953–1956 -
Chapter 20 1957–1964 -
Chapter 21 1965–1976 - Filmography
- Notes and Sources
- Index
- Plates
1948–1952
1948–1952
- Chapter:
- (p.365) Chapter 17 1948–1952
- Source:
- Fritz Lang
- Author(s):
Patrick McGilligan
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter details events in Fritz Lang’s life from 1948 to 1952. Lang became one of the German emigres who experienced a disturbing sense of deja vu when comparing Germany in 1933 with the political climate of post-war America. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) had resumed its attacks against Hollywood’s left-wing community, seeking to brand them as Communists. It was also a period of enormous instability in Hollywood. The Justice Department forced the major studios to divest themselves of theater chains that had guaranteed their profit margins. Television was stealing audiences away while box office showed dramatic erosion. It was a mark of Lang’s character that he forged on, in fact remarkably multiplied his efforts. In the eight years that followed the failure of Diana Productions, he would direct ten motion pictures. These would become the years of his greatest productivity in America.
Keywords: Fritz Lang, biography, directors, House Un-American Activities Committee, Communists, Hollywood
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- Title Pages
- Praise forFritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
-
Prologue 1976 -
Chapter 1 1890–1911 -
Chapter 2 1911–1918 -
Chapter 3 1918–1921 -
Chapter 4 1921–1922 -
Chapter 5 1923–1924 -
Chapter 6 1925–1927 -
Chapter 7 1928–1929 -
Chapter 8 1930–1931 -
Chapter 9 1932–1933 -
Chapter 10 1933–1934 -
Chapter11 1934–1936 -
Chapter 12 1936–1938 -
Chapter 13 1939–1941 -
Chapter 14 1941–1945 -
Chapter 15 1945–1946 -
Chapter 16 1946–1947 -
Chapter 17 1948–1952 -
Chapter18 1952–1953 -
Chapter 19 1953–1956 -
Chapter 20 1957–1964 -
Chapter 21 1965–1976 - Filmography
- Notes and Sources
- Index
- Plates
