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Contemporary influences on Fritz Lang in the 1920s

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Contemporary influences on Fritz Lang in the 1920s. The Nibelungen. Looking back to a mythic past. The film is based on mythology about an Aryan hero, who suffers a great downfall at the hands of a corrupted monarchy. The fall of the German hero. Note the literal ‘stab in the back’. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Nibelungen

Looking back to a mythic past

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The film is based on mythology about an Aryan hero, who suffers a great downfall at the hands of a corrupted monarchy

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The fall of the German hero. Note the literal ‘stab in the back’

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The Nibelungen – majesty turns to defeat

The final hour is essentially a depiction of doomed trench warfare against a ‘primitive’ eastern foe

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Metropolis

Themes of psychic control – sleepwalking, into defeat, etc.

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The dehumanising effects of industrialisation

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Literal dehumanisation

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Man and machine

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Religious references

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The power of speech and effect on a mass audience

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Revolution and mob rule – Rosa Luxemburg & Spartacist League – in 1918 in post armistice riots advocated resistance to the new Weimar government. She lost control of rioting workers and was herself murdered by the Freikorp paramilitaries.

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Fritz Lang’s unintentional influence on German propaganda in the 1930s

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Leni Riefenstahl

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