While examining film history, it is also well worth exploring the stories of the various unions and guilds that formed as the film industry grew. Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola’s Hollywood Unions thoroughly chronicles the histories of these unions that organized motion picture and television labor.
Among the unions and guilds highlighted in this book are IATSE, DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA. These different unions encapsulate the many different types of roles that are necessary to create and produce a film, highlighting the need for many on and off-screen talents.
The authors offer a fascinating overview of the formations of these different unions as well as their legacies today, highlighting the success and challenges these organizations have faced both historically and presently.
Hollywood Unions is available for purchase via Rutgers University Press.
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