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Various political and economic factors conspired to make auteurism a viable intellectual discursive strategy in the 1950s and also to render Greene a suitable candidate for consideration as a literary auteur.1
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For an overview of British auteurism see Eric Hedling, ‘Lindsay Anderson: Sequence and the rise of auteurism in Britain’, British Cinema of the 1950s: A Celebration, edited by Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003) 23–31.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State (Middlesex: Penguin, 1967) 85–86.
Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989) 54–55.
Francis Mulhern, The Moment of Scrutiny (London: New Left Books, 1979).
Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius’, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley (New York: Penguin, 1998) 77.
See Henri Bergson, ‘Laughter’, Comedy, edited by Wylie Sypher (New York: Doubleday, 1956) 161–90
Edward Connor, ‘The mystery film’, Films in Review (March 1954) 120–23
David Fisher, ‘The angel, the devil, and the space traveler’, Sight and Sound (January-March 1954) 155–57
Harry A. Grace, ‘A taxonomy of American crime film themes’, Journal of Social Psychology (August 1955) 129–36
Richard Hodgens, ‘A brief and tragical history of the science fiction film’, Film Quarterly (Winter 1959) 30–39
Siegfried Kracauer, ‘Silent film comedy’, Sight and Sound (August-September 1951) 31–32
David Robinson, ‘Spectacle’, Sight and Sound (Summer 1955) 22–27, 55–56.
Robert Warshow, ‘Movie chronicle: The Westerner’, Film Theory and Criticism, 5th Edition, edited by Leo Braudy and Marshall Co-en (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) 654.
David Thomson, America in the Dark (London: Hutchinson, 1977) 89.
William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade (London: Abacus, 1983) 105.
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (New York: Viking, 1951) 3.
Frances Wyndham, Graham Greene (London: Longmans, 1955) 7.
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Thomson, B.L. (2009). Auteurism and the Study of Greene. In: Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250871_10
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