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Nobodys Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood Audiobook, by J. E. Smyth Play Audiobook Sample

Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood Audiobook

Nobodys Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood Audiobook, by J. E. Smyth Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Karen White Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781684415793

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

109:38 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

16:08 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

81:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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.

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About Karen White

Karen White has been narrating audiobooks of all genres since 1999. Honored to be included in AudioFile’s Best Voices, she’s also a four-time Audie Finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews.