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10 produkter
Nobody's Girl Friday
The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Av J. E. Smyth
Inbunden, 2018
569 kr
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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, two women supervised all studio feature output and could …
Nobody's Girl Friday
The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Av J. E. Smyth
E-bok, 2018
260 kr
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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 …
Nobody's Girl Friday
The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Av J. E. Smyth
E-bok, 2018
260 kr
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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 …
Hollywood and the American Historical Film
Inbunden, 2011
1806 kr
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How do Hollywood filmmakers construct and interpret American history? Is film's visual historical language inherently different from the traditions of written history? This definitive collection of essays by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the …
Mary C. McCall Jr.
The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter
Av J. E. Smyth
Inbunden, 2024
1090 kr
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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 …
Mary C. McCall Jr.
The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter
Av J. E. Smyth
Häftad, 2024
278 kr
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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 …
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
Av J. E. Smyth
Häftad, 2009
446 kr
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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 …
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
Av J. E. Smyth
Häftad, 2015
409 kr
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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 …
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
Av J. E. Smyth
Inbunden, 2014
1326 kr
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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 …
I Lost My Girlish Laughter
E-bok, 2019
180 kr
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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 …
