Erin Hill

Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production

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Produktbeschreibung

Introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry - from the employees' wives who hand-coloured the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as menial workers, Erin Hill shows how their labour was essential to the industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780813574875
• ISBN-10: 0813574870
• Artikelnr.: 44942912

Autorenporträt

ERIN HILL worked in film development before returning to academia to study the media industry. She is currently a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Dartmouth College’s Foreign Study Program in Los Angeles.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
1 Paper Trail: Efficiency, Clerical Labor, and Women in the Early Film
Industry
 
2 Studio Tours: Feminized Labor in the Studio System
 
3 The Girl Friday and How She Grew: Female Clerical Workers and/as the
System
 
4 “His Acolyte on the Altar of Cinema”: The Studio Secretary’s Creative
Service
 
5 Studio Girls: Women’s Professions in Media Production
 
Epilogue: The Legacy of “Women’s Work” in Contemporary Hollywood
 
Appendix: Work Roles Divided By Gender as Represented in Studio Tours Films
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index