Foreign Devils

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.

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 Kordäs 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.