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J. E. Smyth

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J. E. Smyth’s Biography

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Critic and historian
✍️📚Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter
✍️📚I Lost My Girlish Laughter (ed.)
✍️📚Nobody's Girl Friday
✍️📚Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
✍️📚From Here to Eternity (BFI)
✍️📚Hollywood and the American Historical Film (ed.)
✍️📚Edna Ferber's Hollywood
✍️📚Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane

J. E. Smyth’s Journalist Portfolio

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Who controls the past

Who controls the past

The most accessible archives are usually those managed by universities and public libraries. Corporations are…

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Two British women who defied Hollywood stereotyping

Two British women who defied Hollywood stereotyping

In the early 1930s, Hollywood attracted two very different British women. For Ida Lupino, Hollywood initially…

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Stand by your man

Stand by your man

Ellen Terry once said: "We players know quite well and accept with philosophy the fact that when we have done…

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Self-interview

Self-interview

The Northern Irish film-maker Mark Cousins has cultivated a wide and enthusiastic following among social medi…

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Sherlock's Home

Sherlock's Home

Scores of actors have played Sherlock Holmes since C. H. E. Brookfield's first stage appearance at the Royal …

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All Smirk and No Play

All Smirk and No Play

Be warned: The latest Ian McKellen film to pop up in your local cinema is not an adaptation of Richard Brinsl…

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Articles

Donald Trump elige a magnate petrolero como secretario de Energía

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By M. I. McCormick, S. Palma, L. Fedor, J. E. Smyth Verified
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Huston / Washington / Nueva York Donald Trump ha nominado al empresario de esquisto Chris Wright como secretario de Energía, un rol que colocaría al petrolero en el centro de la campaña de la administración para flexibilizar las restricciones a la industria de los combustibles fósiles. Wright “ha sido un destacado tecnólogo y empresario en el sector energético”, afirmó Trump en un comunicado el domingo pasado.
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The Avenging Goddess of Screenwriters: Remembering Mary C. McCall Jr.

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By J. E. Smyth Verified
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The Current Issue - Cineaste Magazine

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By Matthew Hays, Dennis West, Richard Porton, J. E. Smyth Verified
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Mikhail Red's Birdshot Articles Dolemite Was His Name: The Story of Self-Made Cult Film Icon Rudy Ray Moore(Preview) by Steve Ryfle Ida Lupino’s America: “Just a Big Family of Little Failures”by J. E. Smyth With “Gay Abandon”: The Auteur as Homosexual Writer in the Twenty-First Century by David A.
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Interview

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes and a dictaphone and even writing things down with a pencil

What's your favorite social network?

meeting for cocktails at the Algonquin

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

read Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style"

Awards

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Film Scholar

2021
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Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Special Jury Prize

2019 - book
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Michael Nelson Prize, International Association of Media Historians

2009 - book
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Association of American Publishers Prose Award in Media and Cultural Studies

2009 - book
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