Author Archive for: ‘Tom Crosbie’

Atara Stein, The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0809325863 US$45.00 (hb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Southern Illinois University Press) Narratives that detail the gradual absorption of subcultures into the mainstream would do well to follow the lead of Atara Stein, an American scholar interested in the interface of Romanticism and …

Peter Decherney, Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 231 13377 4 US$19 (pb) 269pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) Peter Decherney’s book is a very fine institutional history of Hollywood and the culture elite. It details the history of their relationship as the tragic movement from …