TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Sarah
TI  - Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe 
T2  - Film Europa
SN  - 9780857454416
U1  - 791.43028092 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Film and Television Studies, History: 20th Century to Present
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1 LORRE AND THE EUROPEAN STAGE (1922–1931) --; Chapter 2 M, FRITZ LANG AND HANS BECKERT (1931) --; Chapter 3 THE HOLLYWOOD LEADING ROLES (1935–1941) --; Chapter 4 THE SUPPORTING ACTOR (1941–1946) --; Chapter 5 DER VERLORENE (THE LOST ONE) (1951) --; Chapter 6 THE FINAL SCREEN ROLES (1954–1964) --; Chapter 7 ALTERNATIVE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ MEDIA CONTEXTS --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454423
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454423
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857454423/original
ER  -