Below the stars : how the labor of working actors and extras shapes media production / Kate Fortmueller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortmueller, Kate, author.

Contributor:

Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extras (Actors)--United States--History.

Extras (Actors).

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--History.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Television actors and actresses--United States--History.

Television actors and actresses.

Motion picture industry--United States--History.

Motion picture industry.

Television broadcasting--United States--History.

Television broadcasting.

Precarious employment--United States--History.

Precarious employment.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, background actors and extras have received little attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of Hollywood. Below the Stars examines a history of actors that looks not to the stars, but to these supporting players of film and television sets. Kate Fortmueller highlights such actors as precarious laborers whose work as freelancers has critically shaped the entertainment industry across multiple media throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By addressing ordinary actors as a labor force, Fortmueller proposes a media industry history that can speak to underrepresented and quotidian experiences as the structural elements of the industry over those of well-known stars, directors, producers, or studios"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Hollywood Freelance

How Actors and Extras Shaped the Film Industry

2. Actors and the making of television's first golden age

3. Reuse and Replace?

Actors, Reruns, and the Cable Era

4. NEW MEDIA, OLD LABOR CONFLICTS

Voice Actors and Digital Professionalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.

ISBN:

9781477323076

1477323074

OCLC:

1201670372

Publisher Number:

99992999408

40030665933