Nobody's Girl Friday

Nobody's Girl Friday
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780190840846
ISBN-13 : 0190840846
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Book Synopsis Nobody's Girl Friday by : J. E. Smyth

Download or read book Nobody's Girl Friday written by J. E. Smyth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. 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.E. Smyth uncovers a formidable generation working within the American film industry and brings their voices back into the history of Hollywood. Their achievements, struggles, and perspectives fundamentally challenge popular ideas about director-based auteurism, male dominance, and female disempowerment in the years between First and Second Wave Feminism. Nobody's Girl Friday is a revisionist history, but it's also a deeply personal, collective account of hundreds of working women, the studios they worked for, and the films they helped to make. For many years, historians and critics have insisted that both American feminism and the power of women in Hollywood declined and virtually disappeared from the 1920s through the 1960s. But Smyth vindicates Bette Davis's claim. The story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told-until now.

Mapping Smallville

Mapping Smallville
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780786494644
ISBN-13 : 0786494646
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mapping Smallville by : Cory Barker

Download or read book Mapping Smallville written by Cory Barker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first full-length academic projects on the television series Smallville, this collection of new essays explains why the WB/CW series is important to understanding contemporary popular culture. The essays are presented in four sections covering broad categories: Clark Kent's metamorphosis to Superman and the influence of his parents and the home; the role of the series' noteworthy female characters; the series' representations of the Other, explorations of identity, and the ways in which characters speak to Clark's own struggles; and audience reception of the series and its position within the Superman narrative universe.

Who Wrote Citizen Kane?

Who Wrote Citizen Kane?
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9783031402241
ISBN-13 : 3031402243
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Book Synopsis Who Wrote Citizen Kane? by : Warren Buckland

Download or read book Who Wrote Citizen Kane? written by Warren Buckland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a solution to one of film history’s major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles’ and Herman J. Mankiewicz’s contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities. Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the Sight & Sound film critics’ poll. Orson Welles directed the film and is credited with co-writing the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. But the co-writer credit generates furious disputes between those who argue Mankiewicz is the sole author of Citizen Kane and those who claim that Welles collaborated fully with its writing. The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions: What are the distinguishing features of Welles’ and of Mankiewicz’s writing? And What did each contribute to the writing of the Citizen Kane screenplay? To answer these questions, the author bypasses opinions and impressions, and instead subjects the language of the Citizen Kane screenplay to a ‘forensic’ examination. Employing linguistics, basic statistical tests, plus computer technology and software, the author identifies the stylistic signature of each author – the combination of consistent and regular linguistic habits that make each author’s writing distinctive. This book replaces impressionistic discussions of Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay with a rigorous, experiment-driven statistical analysis. Earlier statistical studies of authorship have discovered that small, unassuming language features (such as punctuation, pronouns, and prepositions) in statistically significant quantities, constitute a screenwriter’s distinctive writing habits. Only with the extensive experimentation carried out in this volume, did the author decide Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ specific habits and their contributions to Citizen Kane.

Pursuits of Happiness

Pursuits of Happiness
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 067473906X
ISBN-13 : 9780674739062
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Pursuits of Happiness by : Stanley Cavell

Download or read book Pursuits of Happiness written by Stanley Cavell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.

Hearings

Hearings
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Total Pages : 2404
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ISBN-10 : UOM:35112104264504
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Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress Senate

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 2404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings

Hearings
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Total Pages : 1666
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015069455049
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Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

District of Columbia Appropriations for 1965, Hearings Before ... 88-2, on H.R. 10199

District of Columbia Appropriations for 1965, Hearings Before ... 88-2, on H.R. 10199
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Total Pages : 602
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105119583032
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Book Synopsis District of Columbia Appropriations for 1965, Hearings Before ... 88-2, on H.R. 10199 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee

Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriations for 1965, Hearings Before ... 88-2, on H.R. 10199 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: