J. E. Smyth
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Sight & Sound,
Diario Financiero,
Los Angeles Review of Books,
Women and Hollywood,
Kirkus Reviews,
The Times Literary Supplement,
Cineaste Magazine,
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Arts, literature, and culture
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J. E. Smyth’s Biography
Read Full Bio →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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Interview
See all 6 answers →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"