グレアム・グリーンと大衆文学・映画の政治学 Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film （1ST）

Thomson, Brian Lindsay

Palgrave Macmillan（2009/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230228542
• DDC分類 823.912

基本説明

Charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual establishment reluctant to identify the work of popular writer as 'literature'.

Full Description

One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentieth century, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment. Thomson charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual establishment reluctant to identify the work of a popular writer as 'literature'.

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene PART I: FROM FAILED NOVELIST TO POPULAR WRITER Institutional and Critical Priorities at the Beginning of Graham Greene's Career The Failed Novelist Readers and Generic Processes in Stamboul Train Cinema as a Strategy of Containment PART II: FROM POPULAR WRITER TO AUTHOR Cinematic Evasions After Stamboul Train Greene and Genre Strategic Moves: Genres, Brand, Authors and The Third Man Amateurs and Professionals, Auteurs and Intellectuals PART III: FROM AUTHOR TO CONTESTED AUTHORITY Auteurism and the Study of Greene Our Man in Havana and Auteurism PART IV: THE POLEMICAL BATTLEFIELD Greene and the Polemics of Canonical Reading Depopulating the Common: Reading The End of the Affair Liberal Commitment: Reading The Quiet American Appropriating Greene: Re-reading The End of the Affair and The Quiet American Conclusion: The Problem of a 'Better Case' Index