Never done : a history of women's work in media production / Erin Hill.

By:

Hill, Erin, 1977- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813574899

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN1995 .N484 2016

Online resources:

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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 technical and interpersonal skills. As it pores through rare archives and integrates the firsthand accounts of women employed in the film industry, this book gives a voice to women whose work was indispensable yet largely invisible.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PN1995.9.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn960871925

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 technical and interpersonal skills. As it pores through rare archives and integrates the firsthand accounts of women employed in the film industry, this book gives a voice to women whose work was indispensable yet largely invisible.

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