Author Todd Herzog

Todd Herzog

Todd Herzog is Associate Professor and Head of the German Studies Department at the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching focus on 20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature, film, and culture. He is author of Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (Berghahn, 2009), and co-editor of A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001) and Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (Berghahn, 2008). He is currently editing German Cinema: A Critical Filmography to 1945 for Caboose Books and working on a monograph on surveillance and art. He regularly teaches courses on Germanic mythology, European cinema, film studies, methodology and history, German cultural history, and children's literature.

‘Are you by any chance a sad-eyed, innocent villain in pictures?’ / ‘Yes, I’m afraid I am’ (1) Peter Lorre: Face Maker by Sarah Thomas

Todd Herzog

September 2012

Book Reviews

In the 1930s Charlie Chaplin referred to Peter Lorre as ‘the greatest living actor’ (p. 60). Fifty years later, Vincent Price claimed that Lorre was ‘not in any way a bad actor; it's just that Hollywood's creat...

The Newest New Wave: New Austrian Film edited by Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck

Todd Herzog

March 2012

Book Reviews

Is there an Austrian National Cinema? The concept of national cinema has always been difficult to pin down. Especially in a country whose domestic market is as small and whose identity has been as fluid as A...