British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965

Travelers, Exiles, and Expats
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-47937-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2727 g

British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colletta, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Movies and the Lure of Hollywood 2. Hollywood Architecture and the Technicolor Landscape 3. Forest Lawn, Hollywood, and the American Way of Dying 4. Movie Stars and Celebrity 5. British Hollywood Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Colletta is Associate Professor of English at the American University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel, the editor of Christopher Isherwood's Letters to his Mother, and the co-editor of Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien. Her research interests include Modernism, humor studies, and travel literature and her work has appeared in numerous journals and essay collections.