Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

by J.E. Smyth

Book Overview

Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century--the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725639
• ISBN13: 9780292725638
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"