Power in Hollywood: Work, Agency, and Authorship in the Era of #MeToo
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In an industry where “all hits are flukes,” how does power operate? As a workplace, how is Hollywood organized? How are careers forged and sustained amidst such precarity and ambiguity? And, how have recent social movements affected work and hiring practices in the industry? These questions motivate my research and serve as the foundation of the three papers herein. To examine Hollywood as a workplace, I draw from and add to diverse theories and literatures, including cultural approaches to agency theory and Foucauldian-influenced theories of organizations and professions. I use the cases of assistants and television writers to complicate models of collective production and show how patrimonial systems organize relationships throughout the industry.
Source: Libra
DOI: 10.18130/mxk9-xv85
Author: Julia Dessauer
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Topic: Cinema and Media Studies
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6906701800
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