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Sound Strategies: Lang's Rearticulation of Renoir
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 39, Number 3, Spring 2000
- pp. 51-65
- 10.1353/cj.2000.0010
- Article
- Additional Information
Fritz Lang directed Scarlet Street in a triangulated response to his previous film, The Woman in the Window, and to Jean Renoir's La Chienne, which it explicitly remakes. The ambivalent relation among the films is most clear in Lang's treatment of sound, which reverses Renoir's practice.