British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935–1965 [electronic resource] : Travelers, Exiles, and Expats /
Colletta, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
Introduction: The British in Hollywood: travelers, exiles, and expats -- Movies and the lure of Hollywood -- Hollywood architecture and the technicolor landscape -- Forest Lawn, Hollywood, and the American way of dying -- Movie stars and celebrity -- British Hollywood fiction.
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.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Motion pictures—History.
America—History.
Motion pictures and television.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Film History.
History of the Americas.
Screen Studies.