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Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors’ Labor
Danae Clark
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Description for Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors’ Labor
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 account of actors' labor struggles in 1930s Hollywood.
For many years, one of the dominant approaches to film studies has been the "star studies" approach, like auteurism or biography wherein one actor or director becomes the object of study. Clark argues for a cultural studies approach as she investigates both the individual and collective political conflicts that actors encountered within the Hollywood production system in the 1930s. She ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816625451
SKU
V9780816625451
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About Danae Clark
Danae Clark is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, the Journal of Film and Video, and other media-interest publications.
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