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Christine is on the hunt to find out more about her great aunt, Rose, hoping to decipher their severed relationship and the murder Rose committed, for which June is in prison. With a stroke leaving Rose incapacitated, it's a rush against time to find the truth.Things are doubly complicated when Christine's girlfriend Terrie is accused of assaulting someone. Nervous about what she might do next, ... Read more

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Christine is on the hunt to find out more about her great aunt, Rose, hoping to decipher their severed relationship and the murder Rose committed, for which June is in prison. With a stroke leaving Rose incapacitated, it's a rush against time to find the truth.Things are doubly complicated when Christine's girlfriend Terrie is accused of assaulting someone. Nervous about what she might do next,
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Killer Date Night

An Emilia Long Mystery

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When Tina Lowe is found murdered, the evidence points to her boyfriend, Dr. James Turner. But Emilia Long isn't convinced.What starts as a search for the truth quickly pulls Emilia into a dangerous web of secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. With her best friend Chanel by her side and Detective Nelson watching closely, Emilia follows a trail that leads far beyond a simple crime of passion.As the ... Read more

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When Tina Lowe is found murdered, the evidence points to her boyfriend, Dr. James Turner. But Emilia Long isn't convinced.What starts as a search for the truth quickly pulls Emilia into a dangerous web of secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. With her best friend Chanel by her side and Detective Nelson watching closely, Emilia follows a trail that leads far beyond a simple crime of passion.As the
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Edna Ferber's Hollywood

American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Mary C. McCall Jr.

The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Nobody's Girl Friday

The Women Who Ran Hollywood

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

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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 ... Read more

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Reconstructing American Historical Cinema

From Cimarron to Citizen Kane

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Gardener

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I watch him. I want him, but I'm too shy to tell him.Tyler, the voyeur, often satisfies himself as he watches Jacob's hot body sweating in the sun. But he keeps his desires a secret unsure of how Jacob would react to his true feelings. Then one hot sunny day, a breeze blows the curtain, letting Jacob glimpse Tyler naked as he watches him through the window.Tyler Finlay is a freelance film critic, ... Read more

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I watch him. I want him, but I'm too shy to tell him.Tyler, the voyeur, often satisfies himself as he watches Jacob's hot body sweating in the sun. But he keeps his desires a secret unsure of how Jacob would react to his true feelings. Then one hot sunny day, a breeze blows the curtain, letting Jacob glimpse Tyler naked as he watches him through the window.Tyler Finlay is a freelance film critic,
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I Lost My Girlish Laughter

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Hope for Spring

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Alex struggles with purpose and loneliness. In an act of desperation, betting on fate, she goes out into the streets of California looking for her friend Bob and to get lost in the world herself.Her journey gives insight into the emotional underbelly of transient life and the unforgiving pulse of mental illness. Both things are daunting, but they are especially lethal when combined. ... Read more

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Alex struggles with purpose and loneliness. In an act of desperation, betting on fate, she goes out into the streets of California looking for her friend Bob and to get lost in the world herself.Her journey gives insight into the emotional underbelly of transient life and the unforgiving pulse of mental illness. Both things are daunting, but they are especially lethal when combined.
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A Few Good Friends

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Four women became best friends in college, and the years have done nothing to break their bond. As life begins to hit them hard, they are even more determined to hold each other together. Joanna is a successful marketing executive with drive and ambition. She's tough enough to handle herself in a man's world and smart enough to know her worth, but the fear of disappointment keeps her from opening ... Read more

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Four women became best friends in college, and the years have done nothing to break their bond. As life begins to hit them hard, they are even more determined to hold each other together. Joanna is a successful marketing executive with drive and ambition. She's tough enough to handle herself in a man's world and smart enough to know her worth, but the fear of disappointment keeps her from opening
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