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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

    $12.39 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

    $28.49 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

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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 or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

    $24.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Killer Date Night

    An Emilia Long Mystery

    by J.E. Smythe ...
    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

    $5.99 USD

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  • Through Grandma's Eyes

    by JE Smythe ...
    LaCrae James is 19 years old, head strong and talented. She dreams of becoming a top dancer and will stop at nothing to make it happen. After meeting a man who promises to make her dreams come true, LaCrae decides to take the chance of a lifetime. She rebels against her mother and heads to New York City.When Mae Dupuy's granddaughter shows up unannounced on the steps of her brownstone in Harlem, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $13.69 USD

  • Secrets in the Woods

    An Emilia Long Mystery

    by J.E. Smythe ...
    **Emilia Long is an investigative reporter from New York City. After reading documents left for her by her adopted mother, Emilia learned that she was left abandoned as an infant at a Brooklyn hospital. The discovery led Emilia on a journey to find her birth mother.The search took her from New York to a small town in North Caroline. Upon her arrival, she learned that her birth mother disappeared ... Read more

    $3.99 USD