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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (283 p.) : 25 photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813574868
  • 9780813574899
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384/.80820973
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W6 H545 2016
  • PN1995.9.W6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 whose vital contributions often went unrecognized. Never Done introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry-from the employees' wives who hand-colored the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce beautifully beaded and embroidered costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as merely menial workers, media historian Erin Hill shows how their labor was essential to the industry and required considerable technical and interpersonal skills. Sketching a history of how Hollywood came to define certain occupations as lower-paid "women's work," or "feminized labor," Hill also reveals how enterprising women eventually gained a foothold in more prestigious divisions like casting and publicity. Poring through rare archives and integrating the firsthand accounts of women employed in the film industry, the book gives a voice to women whose work was indispensable yet largely invisible. As it traces this long history of women in Hollywood, Never Done reveals the persistence of sexist assumptions that, even today, leave women in the media industry underpraised and underpaid. For more information: http://erinhill.squarespace.com
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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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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 whose vital contributions often went unrecognized. Never Done introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry-from the employees' wives who hand-colored the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce beautifully beaded and embroidered costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as merely menial workers, media historian Erin Hill shows how their labor was essential to the industry and required considerable technical and interpersonal skills. Sketching a history of how Hollywood came to define certain occupations as lower-paid "women's work," or "feminized labor," Hill also reveals how enterprising women eventually gained a foothold in more prestigious divisions like casting and publicity. Poring through rare archives and integrating the firsthand accounts of women employed in the film industry, the book gives a voice to women whose work was indispensable yet largely invisible. As it traces this long history of women in Hollywood, Never Done reveals the persistence of sexist assumptions that, even today, leave women in the media industry underpraised and underpaid. For more information: http://erinhill.squarespace.com

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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