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| Films have also been made about the subject, often dealing with issues of culture shock experienced by expatriates. Examples, grouped by host country, include: | Films have also been made about the subject, often dealing with issues of culture shock experienced by expatriates. Examples, grouped by host country, include: | ||
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An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
Literary and screen portrayals
Expatriate milieus are the setting of many novels and short stories, including works by:
- James Baldwin (Giovanni's Room)
- J.G. Ballard (Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes)
- Paul Bowles
- Anthony Burgess (The Malayan Trilogy)
- Joseph Conrad
- Robert Drewe (A Cry in the Jungle Bar)
- Lawrence Durrell
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender is the Night)
- Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier)
- E.M. Forster
- Graham Greene
- Ernest Hemingway
- Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
- Michel Houellebecq (Platform)
- Henry James
- Christopher Koch (The Year of Living Dangerously)
- Janice Y. K. Lee (The Expatriates)
- Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano)
- W. Somerset Maugham
- George Orwell (Burmese Days)
- Chris Pavone (The Expats)
- Arthur Phillips (Prague)
- Tom Rachman (The Imperfectionists)
- Paul Scott
- Evelyn Waugh (Scoop)
Memoirs of expatriate life include those by authors such as:
- J.G. Ballard (Miracles of Life)
- Bill Bryson (Notes from a Small Island)
- Stephen Clarke (A Year in the Merde)
- Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
- Laurie Lee (As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning)
- Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence)
- Michael Moorcock (Letters from Hollywood)
- Marco Polo (The Travels of Marco Polo)
- Sayyid Qutb (The America That I Have Seen)
Films have also been made about the subject, often dealing with issues of culture shock experienced by expatriates. Examples, grouped by host country, include: {{columns-list|2|
- Austria: The Third Man.
- Cambodia: City of Ghosts.
- China: The Painted Veil.
- France: An American in Paris, Before Sunrise, Charade, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Good Year, Killing Zoe, Midnight in Paris, The Moderns, Ninotchka, To Catch a Thief.
- Hong Kong: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.
- India: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Carry On Up the Khyber, Outsourced, A Passage to India.
- Indonesia: The Year of Living Dangerously.
- Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun.
- Japan: Lost in Translation, Mr. Baseball.
- Morocco: Casablanca, Naked Lunch, The Sheltering Sky.
- Spain: Barcelona, Sexy Beast, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
- Saudi Arabia: A Hologram for the King.
- Thailand: The Beach, The King and I.
- Uganda: The Last King of Scotland.
- United Kingdom: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Straw Dogs.
- United States: Borat, Coming to America, Crocodile Dundee, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Leningrad Cowboys Go America.
- Unnamed/various: Before Sunrise and sequels, Eat, Pray, Love; The Ugly American; The Wages of Fear.
See also
- émigré
- Great Migration
- European migration to America
- American migration to Europe
- Beat Generation
- Lost Generation
- Notable American expatriates
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