Winner of the Mystery Writers of America\'s 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping both her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys.
An associate professor of film studies and chair of the cinema department at the University of Miami, she makes frequent speaking appearances and has provided commentary to such media outlets as Air Mail, NPR, and the Daily Mail..
Her books include Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break and Magnolia .
About author(s): Christina Lane has written extensively on film history and aesthetics.
Author Christina Lane shows how this stylish, stunning Woman became Hollywood\'s most powerful female writer-producer--one whom history has since overlooked.
And she did it all on her own terms.
She teamed up with many of the most respected, well-known directors, writers, and actors of the twentieth century.
She waged rough-and-tumble battles against executives and censors, and even helped to break the Hollywood blacklist.
She built most of her films and series from the ground up.
A respected powerhouse, she acquired a singular reputation for running amazingly smooth productions-- and defying anyone who posed an obstacle.
Harrison had quickly grown from being the worst secretary Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the "Master of Suspense." Harrison went on to produce numerous Hollywood features before becoming a television pioneer as the Producer of Alfred Hitchcock Presents .
A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcock\'s confidante and one of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of his first American film, Rebecca .
Winner of the Mystery Writers of America\'s 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping both her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys
