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

Never Done introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry-from dressmakers to secretaries to script readers. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as merely menial workers, media historian Erin Hill shows how their labor required considerable t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hill, Erin, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Paper trail: efficiency, clerical labor, and women in the early film industry
  • Studio tours: feminized labor in the studio system
  • The Girl Friday and how she grew: female clerical workers and/as the system
  • "His acolyte on the altar of cinema": the studio secretary's creative service
  • Studio girls: women's professions in media production
  • Epilogue: the legacy of "women's work" in contemporary Hollywood.