Peter Lorre Face Maker

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857454423

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Peter Lorre: Face Maker by Sarah Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454416

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Peter Lorre, Face Maker by Sarah Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:921047916

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Face-maker by Sarah Thomas Pdf

Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231536523

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Continental Strangers by Gerd Gemünden Pdf

Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle's The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinnemann's Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786834973

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Masks in Horror Cinema by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Pdf

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.

Author : Ronald L. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786457298

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Horror Stars on Radio by Ronald L. Smith Pdf

This book chronicles the radio appearances of all prominent classic horror movie stars—Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and two dozen more, including “scream queens” like Fay Wray. It contains script excerpts from radio shows as well as material from narrated albums and music singles. Each star’s appearances are listed by show and air date, with descriptions of the subject matter.

Author : Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239420

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The German Cinema Book by Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg Pdf

This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.

Author : Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813123607

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The Lost One by Stephen D. Youngkin Pdf

The first full biography of this major actor draws upon more than 300 interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor.

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078648215X

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Double Feature Creature Attack by Tom Weaver Pdf

This whopping big McFarland Classic brings together 43 interviews with horror and science fiction movie writers, producers, directors and the men and women who saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, robots, zombies, and other sinister, stumbling threats--in the movies, at least. The interviewees reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films and tell their stories. This classic volume represents the union of two previous volumes: 1994's Attack of the Monster Movie Makers ("anecdotes are frank and revealing"--Video Watchdog); and 1995's They Fought in the Creature Features ("a fun book for all SF film enthusiasts"--Interzone). Together at last, this combined collection of interviews offers a candid and delightful perspective on the movies that still make audiences howl and squeal (though fear has long been replaced with sweet nostalgia).

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Horror films
ISBN : UOM:39015031780524

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Attack of the Monster Movie Makers by Tom Weaver Pdf

Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films. Merry Anders, Charles Bennett, Ben Chapman, Herman Cohen, Robert Day, Val Guest, Susan Hart, Candace Hilligoss, Rose Hobart, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jacques Marquette, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Nelson, William Phipps, Vincent Price, Ann Robinson, Herbert Rudley, Harry Spalding, Kenneth Tobey, and Lupita Tovar reflect on their work in such movies as Berserk, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Cat-Women of the Moon and many other movies. Some interviews were previously published.

Author : Stephen D. Youngkin,James Bigwood,Raymond Cabana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015011899781

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The Films of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin,James Bigwood,Raymond Cabana Pdf

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838716486

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James Mason by Sarah Thomas Pdf

Sarah Thomas's study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason's career and star persona. Her analysis is structured around three strands central to understanding stardom: the star persona, industry and power, and screen performance. Thomas addresses the incredible range of Mason's star career – 1930s 'quota quickies'; 1940s Gainsborough melodramas; the desperate IRA man in Carol Reed's 'Odd Man Out' (1947); from the 1950s onwards, Hollywood classics including starring in Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' (1959) and playing Humbert Humbert in Kubrick's 'Lolita' (1962). She also considers in depth his undervalued post-1962 career, off-screen celebrity status, non-film work, comic and vocal performances, and the star's own self-commentary. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on such subjects as power and powerlessness; public image and national identity, contextualizing Mason's career in wider histories of British, American and European transnational filmmaking.

Author : Maria Fritsche
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857459466

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Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema by Maria Fritsche Pdf

Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a disrupted society. Through detailed analysis of the stylistic patterns, narratives and major themes of four popular genres of the time, costume film, Heimatfilm, tourist film and comedy, the book explains how popular cinema helped to shape national identity, smoothed conflicted gender relations and relieved the Austrians from the burden of the Nazi past through celebrating the harmonious, charming, musical Austrian man.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bookforum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Detlef Siegfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789202892

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Modern Lusts by Detlef Siegfried Pdf

As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar intellectual life.