Never Done : : A History of Women's Work in Media Production /

Never Done : : A History of Women's Work in Media Production / / Erin Hill.

Histories of women in Hollywood usually recount the contributions of female directors, screenwriters, designers, actresses, and other creative personnel whose names loom large in the credits. Yet, from its inception, the American film industry relied on the labor of thousands more women, workers who...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Hill, Erin,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.) :; 25 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Paper Trail: Efficiency, Clerical Labor, and Women in the Early Film Industry
  • 2. Studio Tours: Feminized Labor in the Studio System
  • 3. The Girl Friday and How She Grew: Female Clerical Workers and the System
  • 4. "His Acolyte on the Altar of Cinema": Th e Studio Secretary's Creative Service
  • 5. Studio Girls: Women's Professions in Media Production
  • Epilogue: The Legacy of Women's Work in Contemporary Hollywood
  • Appendix: Work Roles Divided by Gender as Represented in Studio Tours Films
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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