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Memoir Movie Review: “The Help” Reviewed by Diana Paul

by Matilda Butler on November 9, 2011

catnav-book-raves-active-3Post #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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Memoir Movie Review: Winter’s Bone – A Definite “Must” for Memoir Writers

by Matilda ButlerDecember 1, 2010
Memoir Movie Review: Winter’s Bone – A Definite “Must” for Memoir Writers

Diana Y. Paul joins Women’s Memoirs as our new regular Memoir Movie Reviewer. Welcome, Diana. She’ll bring her take on movies that, while not always memoirs, focus on women’s lives in ways that are memoir-like.

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