Actors' screen images have too often stolen the focus of attention from their behind the scenes working conditions. In Negotiating Hollywood, Danae Clark begins to fill this gap in film history by providing a rich historical account of actors' labor struggles in 1930s Hollywood. Clark supplies...

This chapter considers the economic dimensions of prizes and awards in the arts. It first treats the role of awards in the markets for artistic goods: their effect on sales, earnings, and consumer demand, and their function as judgment devices or quality signals. Also discussed are the costs of...

Introduction : understanding cultural political economy / Jacqueline Best and Matthew Paterson -- pt. 1: Interrogating the classics. Undressing the wound of wealth : political economy as a cultural project / David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah -- Works, products, and the division of labour :...