Working in Hollywood
How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor
By Ronny Regev
288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3650-4
Published: October 2018 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-3829-4
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Published: September 2018
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Through extensive use of oral histories, personal correspondence, studio archives, and the papers of leading Hollywood luminaries as well as their less-known contemporaries, Regev demonstrates that, as part of their contribution to popular culture, Hollywood studios such as Paramount, Warner Bros., and MGM cultivated a new form of labor, one that made work seem like fantasy.
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Ronny Regev is assistant professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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"A real feat of primary investigation and rich synthesis, then, that demands a wider audience and contributes steadfastly to our revised understandings of the mechanisms of working in the movie machine. Working in Hollywood is an excellent chronicle of the dream factory laid bare."—Labour History Review
"The book is an absolute pleasure to read--well organized, remarkably lucid, and with broad significance for labor and cultural history. As labor history and the history of capitalism are remaking each other, this book is a model study of the transformation of work in the twentieth century. It is simultaneously confident, careful, and convincing in its arguments--a rare combination."--Lawrence Glickman, Cornell University
"Written with grace and intelligence, this wonderfully engaging book fills an astonishing gap in the history of labor in the Hollywood film industry."--Saverio Giovacchini, University of Maryland