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Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film

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  • © 2009

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  1. Brian Lindsay Thomson
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene

    1. Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 1-15

  3. From Failed Novelist to Popular Writer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Institutional and Critical Priorities at the Beginning of Graham Greene’s Career

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 19-31

    3. The Failed Novelist

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 32-44

    4. Readers and Generic Processes in Stamboul Train

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 45-56

    5. Cinema as a Strategy of Containment

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 57-62

  4. From Popular Writer to Author

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Cinematic Evasions After Stamboul Train

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 65-77

    3. Greene and Genre

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 78-84

    4. Strategic Moves: Genres, Brands, Authors and The Third Man

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 85-99

    5. Amateurs and Professionals, Auteurs and Intellectuals

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 100-115

  5. From Author to Contested Authority

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Auteurism and the Study of Greene

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 119-134

    3. Our Man in Havana and Auteurism

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 135-152

  6. The Polemical Battlefield

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Greene and the Polemics of Canonical Reading

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 155-164

    3. Depopulating the Common: Reading The End of the Affair

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 165-180

    4. Liberal Commitment: Reading The Quiet American

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 181-193

    5. Appropriating Greene: Re-Reading The Quiet American and The End of the Affair

      • Brian Lindsay Thomson
      Pages 194-212
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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'.

About the author

BRIAN LINDSAY THOMSON holds a PhD from University College Dublin, Ireland, co-edits the Internationalist Review of Irish Culture, and is a board member of the NYCLU Nassau Chapter. He is also President of Mea Culpa Pictures and has recently completed his first feature film. 

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