Peter Lorre described himself as merely a 'face maker'. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang's M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image, Lorre's screen performances were highly ...
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Peter Lorre described himself as merely a 'face maker'. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang's M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image, Lorre's screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. Lorre's career was a complex negotiation between transnational identity, Hollywood filmmaking practices, the ownership of star images and the mechanics of screen performance.
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New York. 2016. Berghahn Books. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781785330438. Volume 12, Film Europa. 20 ills, bibliog., index. 222 pages. paperback. Cover: Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in M (1931). keywords: FILM & MEDIA STUDIES. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Peter Lorre described himself as merely a face-maker. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives on the actor's career which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang's M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image, Lorre's screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. Lorre's career was a complex negotiation between national and transnational identities, Hollywood filmmaking, and labor practices, the ownership of star images, and the mechanics of screen performance. ‘[I]n her important new study of Lorre's career. [the author pursues] a rewarding approach that combines careful archival research with clever film analysis to illuminate Lorre's career from a new angle that not only impacts our understanding of this actor, but also presents an important new way to understand the complex exchanges between on-screen and off-screen performances more generally. '-Senses of Cinema. ‘In general, the strength of Thomas's work is that she is familiar with the previous scholarship but also feels free to critique the conclusions of those earlier authors. She focuses much less on biography and gives more attention to theories of drama, which allows her to explore new and interesting aspects of Lorre's performances. This is an excellent text that adds tremendously to our understanding of the works of Peter Lorre and, by extension, EmigrE artists in general. '-Journal of Austrian Studies. inventory #42704.
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