Elinor Glyn and Her Legacy

This book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Elinor Glyn's life and legacy by film scholars and literary and feminist historians and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research.

List of contents

An Introduction to Elinor Glyn: Her Life and Legacy 1. Elinor Glyn, Film History and Popular Culture: An Apologia 2. Elinor Glyn's British Talkies: Voice, Nationality and the Author On-Screen 3. The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926-57) 4. Sin and a Tiger Skin: The Stickiness of Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks 5. Fashion and Fantasy: Elinor Glyn's Contribution to Hollywood's Debate about Marriage 6. The Special Relationship and the Allure of Transatlantic Travel in the Work of Elinor Glyn Appendix. Három hét (Three Weeks) translated intertitles (némafilm, Márton Garas, 1917)

About the author

Karen Randell is Professor of Film Cultures and Visiting Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Her publications include: The War Body on Screen (2008), Re-framing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and The War on Terror (2010), The Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema (2011) and The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It¹s a Mad World (2013). She has collaborated with Alexis Weedon on a number of research publications.
Alexis Weedon is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Her publications include Victorian Publishing: The Economics of Book Production for a Mass Market (2003), Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman (2014) and The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation (2021). Karen Randell and Alexis Weedon co-authored, Transforming Faces for the Screen: Horror and Romance in the 1920s (2023) on Lon Chaney and Elinor Glyn.

Product details

• Authors: Karen (University of Bedfordshire Randell
• Assisted by: Randell Karen (Editor), Alexis Weedon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032458861
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245886-1
• No. of pages: 130
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000