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What would you consider to be "expressionist" features in Fritz Lang.'s M? Please comment on characteristic topics and style.
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What would you consider to be "expressionist" features in Fritz Lang.'s M? Please comment on characteristic topics and style. Expressionism is a style "dedicated to distorted camera angles and a harsh contrast of light and shadow" (Fabian Ziesing). Often in expressionist works "the representation of reality is distorted for the sake of conveying an inner vision"(Harvard). Words such as 'dark' 'demonic' 'twisted' 'haunted' and 'tormented' (Elsaesser 2000 p19) are relevant to expressionist cinema. There are many aspects in Fritz Lang.'s 'M' that could be considered as expressionist, these are the topic, chiaroscuro (the use of light and shadow), abstraction and essentialisation, duality, the predilection for the studio, the use of objects and space and photography style. One of the key features of expressionist film is its' topic. The characteristic topics used in expressionist cinema tend to have a fascination with death, disease, illness, depression, despair and melancholy. There is very often a...
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