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Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood

Title
Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood / J.E. Smyth.
Author
Smyth, J. E., 1977-
Publication
  • New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xv, 304 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"Disillusioned with what the American film industry had become by the 1970s, Bette Davis remembered a time when "women owned Hollywood." This book is their story. Historian J.E. Smyth challenges the belief, reinforced in too many histories and public comments, that feminism died between 1930 and 1950, that women were not important within the Hollywood studio system, that male directors called all the shots, and that the most important Hollywood writer you should know about is Dalton Trumbo"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: the equal right to be the best -- The fourth Warner brother -- Organization women -- Jills-of-all-trades -- Madam president -- Controlling the cut -- Designing women -- Last woman standing -- Epilogue: the cellophane wall.
Call Number
MWER 18-2652
ISBN
  • 9780190840822
  • 019084082X
LCCN
2017026978
OCLC
1002654326
Author
Smyth, J. E., 1977- author.
Title
Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood / J.E. Smyth.
Publisher
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
MWER 18-2652
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