Working in Hollywood
Ronny Regev
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The University of North Carolina Press
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers, meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded rationale of industrial capitalism. The employees of the studios emerged as a new class: they were wage laborers with enormous salaries, artists subjected to budgets and supervision, stars bound by contracts. As such, these workers--people like Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, and Anita Loos--were the outliers in the American workforce, an extraordinary working class.
Through extensive use of oral histories, personal correspondence, studio archives, and the papers of leading Hollywood luminaries as well as their less-known contemporaries, Regev demonstrates that, as part of their contribution to popular culture, Hollywood studios such as Paramount, Warner Bros., and MGM cultivated a new form of labor, one that made work seem like fantasy.
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Irving Thalberg, RKO, Twentieth Century Fox, History of Cinema, Motion Pictures Directors, Motion Pictures Cinematographers, Standardization of Film Work, Motion Picture Industry, Labor in Creative Industries, Paramount Pictures, Motion Pictures actors and actresses, Warner Bros, Standardization of Creative Work, David O. Selznick, Cultural Industries, California Industry, Darryl Zanuck, Business of Hollywood, Hollywood Cinema, Hollywood Mode of Production, American Motion Pictures, Los Angeles Labor, California Labor, MGM, Los Angeles Industries, Motion Pictures Producers, Hollywood Film Industry, William Wyler, The Creative Class, American Film Industry, Motion Pictures Screenwriters, Hollywood Studio System