| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Hollywood freelance: how actors and extras shaped the film industry -- Actors and the making of television's first Golden Age -- Reuse and replace? actors, reruns, and the cable era -- New media, old labor conflicts: voice actors and digital professionalization -- Conclusion -- Postscript. Actors and COVID-19: what the pandemic teaches us about film and television labor. |
| Summary |
"Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, background actors and extras have received little attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of Hollywood. Below the Stars examines a history of actors that looks not to the stars, but to these supporting players of film and television sets. Kate Fortmueller highlights such actors as precarious laborers whose work as freelancers has critically shaped the entertainment industry across multiple media throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By addressing ordinary actors as a labor force, Fortmueller proposes a media industry history that can speak to underrepresented and quotidian experiences as the structural elements of the industry over those of well-known stars, directors, producers, or studios"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Extras (Actors) -- United States -- History.
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Extras (Actors) |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- History.
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Motion picture actors and actresses. |
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Television actors and actresses -- United States -- History.
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Television actors and actresses. |
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Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
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Motion picture industry. |
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Television broadcasting -- United States -- History.
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Television broadcasting. |
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Precarious employment -- United States -- History.
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Precarious employment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fortmueller, Kate. Below the stars. First edition. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2021 9781477323076 1477323074 (DLC) 2020047423 (OCoLC)1201670372 |
| ISBN |
9781477323083 (electronic book) |
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1477323082 (electronic book) |
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9781477323076 |
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1477323074 |
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