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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


