Nobody's girl Friday [electronic resource] : the women who ran Hollywood / J. E. Smyth.

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"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 195...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smyth, J. E., 1977- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Women in the motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Format: Electronic eBook
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.