1st Edition
Music on Demand Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry
Edited By Robert R. Faulkner
Copyright 1983
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
281 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity. Faulkner traces a network of connections that bind together filmmakers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals... Read more
1: Credits and Careers an Introduction; 2: STARTING LINES Entry Points and the Web of Colleague Affiliations; 3: Up from Sprinkler Drain; 4: NO MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS Some Prompt Effects of Commercial Conventions; 5: A SMALL ARMY Career Mobility and Precariousness in the Middle Area; 6: Symbolic Interaction; 7: DUAL INTERESTS Opposing Tendencies and the Positive Aspects of Conflict; 8: CENTRALITY IN A FREELANCE SOCIAL STRUCTURE Career Performances and Professional Networks; 9: THE CHOSEN FEW Selectivity and Career as Retrospective Success; 10: Big Hollywood, Little Hollywood
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