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Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film (Hardcover)
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Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film (Hardcover)
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When a writer produces a novel that is both denounced as Communist
propaganda and extolled as the ideal travelling companion for
hearty venture capitalists looking to conquer the untapped markets
of Southeast Asia, one would expect to see a troupe of
post-modernist scholars scrambling to be the first to point out the
textual ironies at play.
Strangely, however, this has not been the case for Graham Greene,
author of The Quiet American and several dozen of the
twentieth-century's most critically acclaimed bestsellers.
Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film examines
why contemporary scholars have largely ignored the popular and
wildly controversial writer. It explores how the evolution of
literature as a discipline helped entrench intellectual biases
against popular fiction, how the post-war economy and the collapse
of the Hollywood studio system conspired to transform The Third Man
from a thriller into the work of an auteur, and why movie critics
felt that The End of the Affair was sexually obscene while priests
celebrated God's belated cameo on cinema screens.
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