TAILIEUCHUNG - Victor McLaglen, the British Empire, and the Hollywood Raj: Myth, Film, and Reality

This discourse participates, in turn, in a broader discourse of accumulation, the irrevocable flow of advertisements interwoven with the Oscar show itself. While these high-priced advertisements—ads during Oscar telecasts, like Superbowl ads, are often themselves celebrated as elaborately produced showcases—are for a variety of products, their metonymic linkage to the film history montage overdetermines the montage’s celebration of spectatorship as accumulation and consumption. Accumulation is an endemic feature of the cultural landscape of the information society, according to Scott Lash,. | Victor McLaglen the British Empire and the Hollywood Raj Myth Film and Reality Richard A. Voeltz AA J HEN THIS ARTICLE WAS INITIALLY PRESENTED at the Western Conference on British Studies the commentator concluded his remarks by observing I believe this Victor McLaglen and Hollywood Raj business can have wide popular appeal. 1 He meant of course that today the biography and the as-told-to celebrity autobiography have become the most popular sources of non-fiction reading in the United States far surpassing any staid scholarly monographs a situation that frequently leads to jealously among academic historians about the monetary rewards of such enterprises. Interest in biographies extends beyond the book business however with magazines such as Vanity Fair and others publishing profiles or excerpts from longer works almost every month. There exists an almost insatiable demand for books and articles of this type. A E Television has a very popular Biography series that runs the gamut from Napoleon to Sid Caesar. The internet has opened up easy access to biographies of virtually anyone written by virtually anyone with varying degrees of reliability. Any author who writes an interesting account of the life of an individual living or dead that appeals to the casual Richard A. Voeltz Victor McLaglen the British Empire and the Hollywood Raj Myth Film and Reality Journal of Historical Biography 8 Autumn 2010 39-61 jhb. Journal of Historical Biography 2010. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. 40 JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY reader and the enthusiast will most likely find financial success. There is a whole genre of celebrity biography that focuses on the rich and famous the influential or the notorious and within this category an entire sub-genre devoted to movie-stars and other Hollywood types. They can range from the sleazy and sensational to the more complex hefty literary film studies or historical biography the latter varieties .

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