Professor J. E. Smyth
Biography
J. E. Smyth is an American film critic and historian.
B.A. Wellesley College
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale University
Contact Information
for press and other media enquiries, see https://jesmyth.co.uk/contact/
email: j.e.smyth@warwick.ac.uk
office hours: email for appointment
Undergraduate Teaching
- The Formation of American Culture, 1876-1929 (HI282)
- The Formation of American Culture, 1929-2000 (HI2A8)
- The American West (HI3K8)
- The Historical Film (HI33Y)
- North America: Themes and Problems (AM102) now called HI111 A History of the US
Postgraduate Teaching
- PhD supervision in film and media
- Race, Gender, and Hollywood (HI955) (not running)
- History and Film (HI978) (not running)
Books
- Maisie: The Rise and Fall of Golden Age Hollywood's Most Powerful Woman (forthcoming).
- I Lost My Girlish Laughter, by Jane Allen, ed. and with introduction (New York: Penguin/Random House, 2019).
- Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Special Jury Prize; Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Media and Cultural Studies finalist.
- From Here to Eternity (London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
- Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award finalist.
- Hollywood and the American Historical Film, ed. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
- Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History, preface by Thomas Schatz (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009). Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Media and Cultural Studies.
- Reconstructing American Historical Cinema From 'Cimarron' to 'Citizen Kane' (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006; 2009). International Association of Media Historians' Prize in Media and History; Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award finalist.
"'What in heaven’s name brought you to England?'
'My health. I came to England for the waters.'
'Waters-- what waters? We're in the middle of the Midlands.'
'I was misinformed.'"
