Nobody's Girl Friday by J E Smyth
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.
In this invaluable book film scholar JE. Smyth... shows that women were the prime movers in the motion picture industry from the 1890s forward.... This excellent, detailed account of the women who made Hollywood hum offers an entirely new vision of Hollywood. * CHOICE *
[Smyth's] book is groundbreaking in detailing the achievements of women neglected by Hollywood histories. * Carrie Rickey, Film Quarterly *
An excellent foundation for researchers to build upon . . . a fascinating untold story. * H-Net *
[Smyth's] book is groundbreaking in detailing the achievements of women neglected by Hollywood histories. * Carrie Rickey, Film Quarterly *
An excellent foundation for researchers to build upon . . . a fascinating untold story. * H-Net *
J.E. Smyth is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and author or editor of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane (2006), Edna Ferber's Hollywood (2009), Hollywood and the American Historical Film (ed., 2012), Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance (2015), and the BFI classics monograph on From Here to Eternity (2015).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190840822 |
| ISBN 10 | 019084082X |
| Title | Nobody's Girl Friday |
| Author | J E Smyth |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2018-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award Special Jury Prize awarded by The Theatre Library Association Finalist of the 2019 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies by the Association of American Publishers. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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