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

Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages) Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-193) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Authors, English. British -- California -- Los Angeles Expatriate authors. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English -- c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- California. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- California. Popular culture -- English -- c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- California. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. Authors, English British English fiction Expatriate authors Intellectual life SUBJECT Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject California -- Los Angeles California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137380760 1137380764

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