Negotiating Hollywood : the cultural politics of actors' labor / Danae Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Danae.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Economic aspects--United States.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--Employees--Labor unions--United States--History.

Industrial relations--United States.

Industrial relations.

Motion picture industry in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Actors' screen images have too often stolen the focus of attention from their behind the scenes working conditions. In Negotiating Hollywood, Danae Clark begins to fill this gap in film history by providing a rich historical account of actors' labor struggles in 1930's Hollywood. Clark supplies information not only on stars, but on screen extras, whose role in the Hollywood film industry has remained hitherto undocumented.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Actor's (Absent) Role in Film Studies; 2 The Subject of Acting; 3 The Politics of (Self-) Representation; 4 Discourses of Entertainment; 5 Labor and Film Narrative; 6 The Terrain of Actors' Labor; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-145) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8626-2

OCLC:

476093951