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  • Edna Ferber's Hollywood

    American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary C. McCall Jr.

    The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • I Lost My Girlish Laughter

    by Jane Allen, J. E. Smyth ...
    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

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reconstructing American Historical Cinema

    From Cimarron to Citizen Kane

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • From Here to Eternity

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nobody's Girl Friday

    The Women Who Ran Hollywood

    by 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 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

    by 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 ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

    by 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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Nobody's Girl Friday

    The Women Who Ran Hollywood

    by J. E. Smyth ...
    Narrated by Karen White ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 34 min

    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

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    This cultural history is a "well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it" ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new ... Read more

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  • Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine

    A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers

    by Anthony Slide ...
    The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture.Anthony Slide's Inside the ... Read more

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  • Lion of Hollywood

    The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

    by Scott Eyman ...
    Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio ... Read more

    $15.99 USD