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Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe

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Description:Peter Lorre described himself as merely a OCyface makerOCO. 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 LangOCOs 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, LorreOCOs screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. LorreOCOs career was a complex negotiation between transnational identity, Hollywood filmmaking practices, the ownership of star images and the mechanics of screen performance."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe. To get started finding Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 222

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0857454420

Description: Peter Lorre described himself as merely a OCyface makerOCO. 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 LangOCOs 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, LorreOCOs screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. LorreOCOs career was a complex negotiation between transnational identity, Hollywood filmmaking practices, the ownership of star images and the mechanics of screen performance."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe. To get started finding Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe

Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe

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