Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity Into Labor

by Ronny Regev

A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers, meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded rationale of industrial capitalism. The employees of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469636506
• ISBN13: 9781469636504
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 9.5"