Fritz Lang

German Weimar Republic after World War I and was one of the greatest early German Expressionist films. It was a German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. The producers had originally chosen Fritz Lang to be the director, but he had other obligations, and so Dr. Robert Wiene was tapped to direct the film. The story concerns a psychotic killer, Dr. Caligari, who hypnotises a somnambulist (a person who is perpetually asleep but who can be…

Though gay rights have only recently been legally approved nation-wide, discussions on gender awareness, definitions, and queerness are not new. Whether these topics have been around for thousands of years or just in the last hundred, they have been sighted in many ways over time. One such way is in pop culture: the accumulation of materialistic things, such as fashion, songs, and objects, and the non-materialistic things, such as ideas, beliefs, and values, of a population. Society and pop…

L. (2006). Towards effective work relationships. In J.M. H. Fritz & B. L. Omdahl (Eds.), Problematic relationships in the workplace (pp. 279–297). New York: Peter Lang. Like relationships in other settings, workplace relationships can turn rather sour and consequently problematic when not properly controlled. In ‘Towards Effective Relationships,’ the author, Becky…

Charlie Chaplin has been known for being a self made mogul in the past. Typically when someone mentions his name some may tend to only think of the context of his wonderful films and also the backlash or appraisal that those films may have gotten. However, how many people really understand how this man operates as he is directing his own films? How dedicated is he as he is directing each portion of the film? There is a reason why his films are thought to be so successful. Are they successful…

author introduces Moloch in his poem as a metaphor for all the terrible things that separate humanity from their true selves. The central idea of Moloch normally exists within the confines of dystopian worlds. Initially, the movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang introduces Moloch as a dark, sinister, machine-loving entity that sucks the soul out of people and enslaves them. A clear, concrete definition…

Short Paper #1 The existence of filmmaking have acquired an evolutionary genre of historical growth throughout history up until this day, and for many more years to come. Intrigued by the creativity of film making and the way it has expanded throughout time with capturing its audience attention and keeping up with its generation of fantastic films, as well as transitioning from black and white films to color. Even more amazed at the fact that the history of film began in the 1890s during the…

In his New York Times review of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, Vincent Canby said: “in the filmography of Werner Herzog…‘Nosferatu, the Vampyre’ looks to be a kind of charming diversion…it’s something less than the voyage of self-discovery that each of Mr. Herzog’s earlier, very original films has been…[Dracula is] not some profoundly complex character.” With all due respect to Vincent Canby, I completely and fundamentally disagree. On the one hand, I can see Canby’s angle—Herzog had already built…