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Representing talent : Hollywood agents and the making of movies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roussel, Violaine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017].
Subjects:
Theatrical agents > California > History.
Theatrical agencies > California > History.
Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: an agent at work
  • Introduction
  • The invention of agenting
  • Filling a lacuna in the sociology of Hollywood
  • Facing stereotypes
  • In the field with Hollywood agents
  • What this book unveils: agents and (e)valuation communities
  • Mapping Hollywood
  • Agenting in big versus little Hollywood
  • "The other side": interdependent transformations of studios and agencies
  • The new reality of agenting in big Hollywood
  • The making of professionals in talent agencies
  • "Fulfilling somebody else's dreams"
  • An agent's initiatory path
  • Under the wing of a mentor
  • Forming "generations" in Hollywood
  • Agenting as relationship work
  • The meaning of relationships
  • The definition of an agent's style
  • "Trust" between agents and production professionals
  • Agents and artists: enchanted bonds and power relations
  • Agents' emotional competence
  • Controlling talent?
  • Embedded identities and hierarchies
  • Naming quality and pricing talent
  • Agents in Hollywood's evaluation communities
  • "What it takes to get a movie made?"
  • Pricing the unique
  • Agents of change: the formation of new evaluation communities.