Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production - Couverture rigide

Fortmueller, Kate

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ISBN 10 : 1477323074 ISBN 13 : 9781477323076

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2021

Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Moving Image Category

Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of the industry. Looking not to the stars but to these supporting players in film, television, and, recently, streaming programming, Below the Stars highlights such actors as precarious laborers whose work as freelancers has critically shaped the entertainment industry throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By addressing ordinary actors as a labor force, Kate Fortmueller proposes a media industry history that positions underrepresented and quotidian experiences as the structural elements of the culture and business of Hollywood.

Resisting a top-down assessment, Fortmueller explores the wrangling of labor unions and guilds that advocated for collective action for everyday actors and helped shape professional norms. She pulls from archival research, in-person interviews, and firsthand observation to examine a history that cuts across industry boundaries and situates actors as a labor group at the center of industrial and technological upheavals, with lasting implications for race, gender, and labor relations in Hollywood.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate Fortmueller is associate professor of film and media history at Georgia State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477323074
• ISBN 13: 9781477323076
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
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• Personne responsable: non disponible