Awards

• Winner of Finalist of the 2019 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies by the Association of American Publishers.
• 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.

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The focus on directors has also led to the erasure of women's roles in Hollywood studio-era filmmaking is one of the most important and illuminating points made by J.E. Smyth in her new book, Nobodys Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood. Smyth does not unearthany forgotten female directors. Though this dilligently researched book has obviously been in the works for some time, its release is perfectly timed with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, which have made unignorable the way women have for decades been systematically underpaid, excluded from positions of influence, and subjected to sexual harassment in Hollywood. Smyth ends her book with little optimism for improvement in the future, but leaves readers with a good reason to reconsider and appreciate the past. -- CINEASTE Magazine

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 *

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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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