In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films

Based on Gilles Deleuze’s claim that rumor has been a “cinematographically privileged object” in early sound cinema, this essay will provide a political analysis of the representation of rumor in two early sound films in the transnational oeuvre of Fritz Lang. This interpretation of M―Eine Stadt suc...

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Main Author: Florian Zappe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2020-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16481
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