Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Institutional and Critical Priorities at the Beginning of Graham Greene’s Career....Pages 19-31
The Failed Novelist....Pages 32-44
Readers and Generic Processes in Stamboul Train....Pages 45-56
Cinema as a Strategy of Containment....Pages 57-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Cinematic Evasions After Stamboul Train....Pages 65-77
Greene and Genre....Pages 78-84
Strategic Moves: Genres, Brands, Authors and The Third Man....Pages 85-99
Amateurs and Professionals, Auteurs and Intellectuals....Pages 100-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Auteurism and the Study of Greene....Pages 119-134
Our Man in Havana and Auteurism....Pages 135-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Greene and the Polemics of Canonical Reading....Pages 155-164
Depopulating the Common: Reading The End of the Affair....Pages 165-180
Liberal Commitment: Reading The Quiet American....Pages 181-193
Appropriating Greene: Re-Reading The Quiet American and The End of the Affair....Pages 194-212
Conclusion: The Problem of a ‘Better Case’....Pages 213-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-248