When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry

When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry

When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry

When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry

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Overview

This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476632773
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 07/11/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 229
Sales rank: 1,011,458
File size: 6 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Rosanne Welch teaches the history of screenwriting and one-hour drama for the Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting. As a television writer/producer, her credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences and Touched by an Angel. The book reviews editor for Journal of Screenwriting, she lives in Los Angeles.
Rosanne Welch teaches the history of screenwriting and one-hour drama for the Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting. As a television writer/producer, her credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences and Touched by an Angel. The book reviews editor for Journal of Screenwriting, she lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Finding Frances Marion (Cari Beauchamp)
Introduction (Rosanne Welch)
Adela Rogers St. Johns: Survival of the Feisty (Sarah Amble Whorton)
Jeanie Macpherson: A Life Unknown (Amelia Phillips)
Anita Loos: A Girl Like Her (Toni Anita Hull)
The Nature and Genius of Alice Guy Blaché (Khanisha Foster)
“You’d better learn to hold your liquor”: Bess Meredyth and a Career
in Early Hollywood (Sydney Haven)
The Best Revenge Is Outliving Them All: The Life and Heartbreak
of Frederica Sagor Maas (Mikayla Daniels)
Silent Screenwriter, Producer and Director: Marion Fairfax (Sarah Phillips)
Smart Girl in Charge: Eve Unsell (Laura Kirk)
The Glorious Ms. Glyn (Amy L. Banks)
Fearless and Fierce: June Mathis (Lauren Elizabeth Smith)
Writing Around Lois Weber (Chase Thompson)
Gene Gauntier: Ascending by Drowning (Yasser Omar Shahin)
Lorna Moon: A Woman of a Certain Influence (Elizabeth Dwyer)
Clara Beranger: The Unseen Laborer (Amanda R. Stockwell)
Ida May Park: Prolific Pioneer (Jackie Perez)
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett: The Most Beloved Couple in Hollywood (Julie Berkobien)
In Defense of Lillian Hellman (Kelley C. Zinge)
The Intimately Unknowable Dorothy Parker: A Study of Her Life and Art (Elizabeth Dwyer)
Joan Harrison: Redefining Femininity in Film Noir and Hollywood
(Chelsea Andes)
The Six Degrees of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman (Pamela L. Scott)
Zoë Akins: A Quiet Rebellion (Sarah Amble Whorton)
Marriage of Words: Bella and Sam Spewack (Laura Kirk)
The Forgettable Ms. Murfin (Amy L. Banks)
A Team in Passionate Action: Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin (Rosanne Welch)
About the Contributors
Index
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