Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film [electronic resource] /
Thomson, B.author.
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'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene; Part I: From Failed Novelist to Popular Writer; Part II: From Popular Writer to Author; Part III: From Author to Contested Authority; Part IV: The Polemical Battlefield; Conclusion: The Problem of a ' Better Case'; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Motion pictures—History.
America—Literatures.
Fiction.
Motion pictures and television.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Film History.
North American Literature.
Fiction.
Screen Studies.