This article addresses the benefits of using women's memoirs as historical sources. Employing a critical framework—the concept of creative labor—taken from recent screenwriting studies scholarship, the author analyzes the way that Frederica Sagar Maas and Lenore Coffee represent their roles in the bureaucratic structure of the Hollywood studio system.

Keywords:
creative labor, Frederica Sagar Maas, Lenore Coffee, memoirs, screenwriting, women's writing
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2016
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