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  • Edna Ferber's Hollywood

    American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

    de J. E. Smyth ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white ... Leer más

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  • Dream for a Second

    de Jes Smyth ...
    Have you ever wondered …If I had listened to my heart, would I have forgotten my dreams so easily?For fans of Lucy Score's Things We Never Got Over and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip.Lena is coasting. Ignoring. Avoiding a life she feels too guilty to live—until, thirteen months after a fateful phone call, she is forced from her hiding place in Oregon to drive a vintage Volkswagen van... ... Leer más

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  • Time for Once

    A Novel

    de Jes Smyth ...
    Have you ever wondered …If I had met this person as who I am now, instead of who I was then, would it have changed anything?For fans of Rebecca Serle and Josie Silver.Two people. Ten years. One winding love story.Time, for Jolie, is the worst. It moves too slowly when she needs it to speed up; too fast when she wishes she could just bring everything to a halt. But for her and Jace, ... ... Leer más

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  • Mary C. McCall Jr.

    The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter

    de J. E. Smyth ...
    Finalist, 2024 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library AssociationA screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry’s most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the first woman president of the Screen Writers Guild after leading the fight to unionize the industry’s writers and secured the first ... Leer más

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  • I Lost My Girlish Laughter

    A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system.Madge Lawrence, fresh from New York City, lands a job as the personal secretary to the powerful Hollywood producer Sidney Brand (based on the legendary David O. Selznick). In a series of letters home, Western ... Leer más

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  • Reconstructing American Historical Cinema

    From Cimarron to Citizen Kane

    de J.E. Smyth ...
    In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J. E. Smyth dramatically departs from the traditional understanding of the relationship between film and history. By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood filmmakers were actively engaged in a self-conscious and often critical filmic writing of ... Leer más

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  • From Here to Eternity

    de J.E. Smyth ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time. Adapted from James Jones's bestselling novel, the landmark blockbuster deals frankly with adultery, military corruption, physical abuse, racism and murder, and traces the unhappy lives of five American outsiders in the last days before Pearl Harbor. Made at the height of the Cold War and Hollywood's anticommunist ... Leer más

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  • Nobody's Girl Friday

    The Women Who Ran Hollywood

    de J. E. Smyth ...
    Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was ... Leer más

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  • Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

    de J.E. Smyth ...
    Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, from The Seventh ... Leer más

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  • Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

    de J. E. Smyth ...
    Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, from The Seventh ... Leer más

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    Nobody's Girl Friday

    The Women Who Ran Hollywood

    de J. E. Smyth ...
    Narrado por Karen White ...

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    13 hora 34 minutos

    The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist.Based on a decade of archival research, author J ... Leer más

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