James Mason

By:

Sarah Thomas

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Film Stars

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Sarah Thomas's study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason's career and star persona. Her analysis is structured around three strands central to understanding stardom: the star persona, industry and power, and screen performance. Thomas addresses the incredible range of Mason's star career - 1930s 'quota quickies'; 1940s Gainsborough melodramas; the desperate IRA man in Carol Reed's 'Odd Man Out' (1947); from the 1950s onwards, Hollywood classics including starring in Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' (1959) and playing Humbert Humbert in Kubrick's 'Lolita' (1962). She also considers in depth his undervalued post-1962 career, off-screen celebrity status, non-film work, comic and vocal performances, and the star's own self-commentary. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on such subjects as power and powerlessness; public image and national identity, contextualizing Mason's career in wider histories of British, American and European transnational filmmaking.

Author Biography:

Sarah Thomas is Lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is the author of Peter Lorre - Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe (2012) and co-editor of Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification (2012).

Release date NZ

January 25th, 2018

Author

Sarah Thomas

Series

Film Stars

Pages

146

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

VI, 146 p.

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

BFI Publishing

ISBN-13

9781844576357

Product ID

26237869

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