Representing talent
Subtitle: Hollywood agents and the making of movies
By: Violaine Roussel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780226486802; 9780226486949
Subjects: Motion picture industry; Theatrical agents; Theatrical agencies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : an agent at work; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Agenting as relationship work. The meaning of relationships ; The definition of an agent's style ; "Trust" between agents and production professionals; title: Agents and artists : enchanted bonds and power relations. Agents' emotional competence ; Controlling talent? ; Embedded identities and hierarchies; title: Naming quality and pricing talent. Agents in Hollywood's evaluation communities ; "What it takes to get a movie made" ; Pricing the unique; title: Agents of change : the formation of new evaluation communities.