Foreign Devils

Exile and Host Nation in Hollywood's Golden Age

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de Gábor Gergely

Type

Studies

Sujet

Countries > United States

Mots Clés

classical Hollywood, immigrant directors

Année d'édition

2013

Editeur

Peter Lang

Collection

Framing Film

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 192 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4331-1942-2

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Béla Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema. This book contends that Hollywood uses European émigré actors to speak of the experience of exile and the often-futile exilic attempts at integration into the host nation.
This original, cross-disciplinary study incorporates a number of research interests in film studies – specifically Hollywood cinema, exile and émigré filmmakers, the Golden Age of the studio system, the Universal Horror cycle, and Poverty Row filmmaking. Foreign Devils combines the close reading of key texts with a theoretical framework that encompasses body theory and theories of space and nation with historical accounts of immigration to the United States and American concepts of nationhood through the symbolism of blood and death studies.
Film studies students and academics, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as scholars in other disciplines, and anyone with an interest in Hollywood cinema, Central European culture in the 1930s-1950s, and European emigration to the United States will benefit from reading this book. Foreign Devils is also a valuable resource for courses in Hollywood filmmaking, émigré film, exile, Central European culture, nationalism studies, and Jewish studies.

À propos de l'auteur :
Gábor Gergely, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, completed his PhD in film studies at the University of Exeter. He has published on French directors Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol in Studies in French Cinema and on Alexander Korda’s The Thief of Bagdad in the Journal of British Cinema and Television. He has contributed a chapter on Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados and its critique of neorealist cinema to a collected volume on the child in Italian cinema.

Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Peter Lang