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British novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 : = travelers, exiles, and expats /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	British novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 :/ by Lisa Colletta.
Reminder of title:	travelers, exiles, and expats /
Author:	Colletta, Lisa,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Authors, English. -
Subject:	Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - History - 20th century. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137380760
ISBN:	1137380764 (electronic bk.)

British novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 : = travelers, exiles, and expats /
Colletta, Lisa,

British novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 :travelers, exiles, and expats /by Lisa Colletta. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Was early Hollywood, with its celluloid dreams and theme-park cemeteries, the beginning of the end of the Western humanist tradition? "British Novelists in Hollywood" 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. Drawn to Los Angeles for a variety of reasons that included everything from easy money, political disaffection, spiritual longing, and the Mediterranean climate, writers such as Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, J.B Priestly, Dodie Smith and Evelyn Waugh, and P.G. Wodehouse represent an incursion of expert settlers representing British culture and civilization. But instead of establishing themselves once again with a mission of colonial superiority, they soon found that their cultural power clashed with the commercially inviolable mass production of American popular culture. Lisa Colletta argues that the British experience in Southern California challenged traditional ideas of national identity and power and implicated them in a complex of choices and influences filtered through the Hollywood dream machine.

ISBN: 1137380764 (electronic bk.)

Source: 710983Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

831455
Authors, English.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

814390
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
--History--20th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR885 / .C65 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.9109

British novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 : = travelers, exiles, and expats /
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