A Companion to Fritz Lang offers the first full-scale collection of scholarship available in English on one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Over two dozen essays add up to an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of Fritz Lang s prolific and resilient life and vision.

This collection of critical essays offers an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema's greatest auteurs. * The first edited collection of essays on Fritz Lang's body of work in over thirty years * A comprehensive assessment of one of cinema's most influential figures * Brings together key scholars, including Tom Gunning and Chris Fujiwara, to share their latest insights * Features translated contributions from writers rarely rendered in English such as Nicole Brenez and Paolo Berletto * Offers multinational and multi-perspectival analysis of Lang's oeuvre, including all his key films