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Carol Gould (born 1953 in Philadelphia, USA) is an American author and film maker who lives in England. She is the editor of ''Current Viewpoint'' magazine and is a regular contributor to British Sky Broadcasting - Sky News political programming. ==Education and career== Gould attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls and Temple University, moving to its London campus in 1976 where she studied documentary film history with Edgar Anstey. In 1977 her first plays, ''Virgo Rising'' and ''Barking to the Angel'', were produced in London. In 1980 she had a successful play, ''A Chamber Group'', about a contemporary music ensemble, at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1981, she became Associate Head of Drama at Anglia Television. She was also for ten years commissioning editor and associate producer/script editor for international Drama seen on PBS. She worked with John Rosenberg and Sir John Woolf. Her credits include ''Tales of the Unexpected'' and ''Cause Célèbre'' by Sir Terence Rattigan, six P. D. James thrillers, and adaptations of Somerset Maugham and Eric Ambler. She began making documentaries in 1996 and produced a feature-length film, ''Long Night's Journey Into Day'', about Israel after the death of Yitzhak Rabin, which premiered at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. Since 1997 she has made 15 documentaries in Britain and South Africa. She wrote a comment feature for ''The Guardian'' in 2004 about her encounters with USA-hatred in Britain.〔("An American Scapegoat in London" ), ''The Guardian'' Comment, 16 October 2004, accessed September 2008.〕 She is a vocal critic of what she sees as increasing anti-Americanism and antisemitism in Britain. She is working on a play about the 19th-century British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and a screenplay about the weekend of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. She has made a film in 2008 about wartime African-American "GI babies". Her book ''Don't Tread on Me'' is about anti-Americanism in Britain and will be published by Social Affairs Unit in the UK and Encounter Books in the USA on October 25, 2008. The paperback of her 1998 novel ''Spitfire Girls'', about the women pilots of World War II, will be published by Random House in the UK and Canada in June 2009.〔(Review of Carol Gould's novel ''Spitfire Girls'' ), 21 April 2010.〕 She has written articles for major UK papers and appeared on the BBC ''Any Questions'' radio program as a panelist in 2006 and in 2008.〔(BBC ''Any Questions'' ). Accessed August 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Gould (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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