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oapen-20.500.12657-315542021-11-04T14:15:30Z Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood Curtin, Michael Sanson, Kevin globalization creative labor working conditions gender below-the-line interviewers runaway production organized labor diversity hollywood Los Angeles Visual effects bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the pleasures that attract people to careers in film and television. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than offer publicity-friendly anecdotes by marquee celebrities, Voices of Labor presents off-screen observations about the everyday realities of Global Hollywood. Ranging across job categories—from showrunner to make-up artist to location manager—this collection features voices of labor from Los Angeles, Atlanta, Prague, and Vancouver. Together they show how abstract concepts like conglomeration, financialization, and globalization are crucial tools for understanding contemporary Hollywood and for reflecting more generally on changes and challenges in the screen media workplace and our culture at large. 2017-04-07 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:39:22Z 2020-04-01T13:39:22Z 2017 book 627022 OCN: 965446717 9780520968196 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31554 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 627022.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.26 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.26 10.1525/luminos.26 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520968196 284 Oakland, California open access
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Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the pleasures that attract people to careers in film and television. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than offer publicity-friendly anecdotes by marquee celebrities, Voices of Labor presents off-screen observations about the everyday realities of Global Hollywood. Ranging across job categories—from showrunner to make-up artist to location manager—this collection features voices of labor from Los Angeles, Atlanta, Prague, and Vancouver. Together they show how abstract concepts like conglomeration, financialization, and globalization are crucial tools for understanding contemporary Hollywood and for reflecting more generally on changes and challenges in the screen media workplace and our culture at large.
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