
Hugely successful author Jackie Collins may have been สูตร เล่น สล็อต branded as the "Queen of Sleaze" by some literary critics, due to her explicit novels, but a new documentary is exploring her career in a new light - as a feminist icon.
Collins, the sister of actress Dame Joan Collins, sold about half a billion books and published 32 novels during her lifetime, but they were banned in some countries due to their content.
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story, by filmmaker Laura Fairrie, looks back at the life of the London-born writer, whose works include bestsellers such as 1983's Hollywood Wives.
Collins died of cancer in 2015 but Fairrie had access to Jackie's diaries and was able to interview the author's three daughters as well as Dame Joan.
"I was looking for another film to do, and I wanted to make it about a fabulous woman," Fairrie explains.
When she heard talk of a project about Jackie Collins, she simply said: "She was my sex education."
Fairrie recalled Collins' books being passed around at school.
"We read them in maths lessons hidden under the desks, so I just had this connection to her from my teenage years, that immediately just gave me a really good insight into who she was."
She added: "I was interested in turning the tables and looking at the other side of the public story. The persona that she created."