Dear Screen-L:
The British Film Institute is pleased to announce the publication of:
Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood: A Critical Companion
Alastair Phillips is Lecturer in Film Studies at
the University of Reading. Ginette Vincendeau is
Professor of Film Studies at the University of
Warwick.
http://go.ucpress.edu/PhillipsJourneys
_Journeys of Desire_ is the first comprehensive
critical guide to European actors in American
film, bringing together fifteen overview chapters
with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals in one
accessible volume.
Since the early days of the US film industry,
European actors have consistently been a major
force in Hollywood. Screen idols such as Charlie
Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Charles
Boyer, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, and Antonio Banderas, as well as
scores of more modest players, have profoundly
shaped "American" cinema. They have also
contributed to the propagation of European types
and stereotypes such as the "Russian" and Nordic
queens played by Garbo and Dietrich, the French
_roués_ popularised by Chevalier, the fiery
Latinos depicted by Banderas, and the British
arch-villains played by Steven Berkoff, Anthony
Hopkins, and Tim Roth. Films such as _Casablanca
_(1942), _Gigi_ (1958), _Green Card_ (1990) and
_Vanilla Sky roués_(2001), among many others,
would not be the same without them.
Contributions from a team of seventy
international experts provide groundbreaking case
studies of prominent individuals and phenomena
associated with the émigrés, such as the retired
Russian officers who played crowds in silent
films, the stereotyping of European actresses in
"bad women" roles, and the ultimate irony of
Jewish actors playing Nazis. Individual entries
chart the careers and screen performances of the
European actors-from Victoria Abril to Mai
Zetterling-who appeared in American movies.
British Film Institute books are distributed in
North America and Asia by the University of
California Press.
Full information about the bookis available
online: http://go.ucpress.edu/PhillipsJourneys
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