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    Voices of Labor

    Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood

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    Author(s)
    Curtin, Michael
    Sanson, Kevin
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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. “Essential reading for anyone interested in how Hollywood actually works.” -RAMON LOBATO, author of Shadow Economies of Cinema “Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson craft a powerful elegy for organized labor, demonstrating how critical theory is sung to the everyday rhythms of the workplace.” -VICKI MAYER, author of Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy “A star-studded cast with diverse talents, backgrounds, and perspectives tells a varied but consistent tale of the importance of organized labor and the challenges it faces when pitted against the forces of media consolidation and globalization, all set in that magical company town known as Hollywood.” -PATRIC M. VERRONE, writer and producer, former president, Writers Guild of America, West MICHAEL CURTIN is Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Film and Media Studies and director of the Global Dynamics Initiative at University of California, Santa Barbara. KEVIN SANSON is a senior lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology and managing editor of Media Industries.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43702
    Keywords
    Social Science; Media Studies
    DOI
    10.1525/luminos.26
    ISBN
    9780520295438, 9780520968196
    Publisher
    University of California Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.ucpress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    2017
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
    Imprint
    University of California Press
    Classification
    Media studies
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    • Harvested from KU

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    • If not noted otherwise all contents are available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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