memoir movie review

Post #92 – Women’s Memoirs, Book & Video Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

What if “The Help” Were a Memoir?

By Diana Paul

The Help has been a popular book, especially among women, and is now showing in movie theaters. It’s fiction but has many elements of non-fiction. I started wondering how we would approach this movie, if it were a memoir.

Let me back up. The Help, a 2009 best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett, is a fictionalized account of [click to continue…]

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