film industry
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in the media and culture industries around the world, and analysis and reviews of art, culture and the media.
Hollywood’s New Radicalism, by Ben Dickenson (I.B. Tauris, 2006). Book review
Hollywood’s New Radicalism is a fascinating account of attempts to subvert the film industry from within. Book review.
The Empire’s New Clothes by Tom Jennings
USA: Striking writers threaten disruption at Golden Globes
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America plan to picket the Golden Globes awards ceremony scheduled for January 13, the guild announced Wednesday.
The west coast division of the WGA issued a statement announcing that the organizer of the awards ceremony, Dick Clark Productions, was one of the companies from which writers went on strike and therefore members would picket the awards ceremony.
Ellen DeGeneres - Writers strike scab
"Comedian" Ellen DeGeneres has become the Hollywood writers' strike's first celebrity scab.
The Independent reported that the television host has found she is no longer welcome on the streets of New York because of her decision to keep recording – and writing – her daytime chat show.
1941: Disney cartoonists strike
A short history of a strike by Disney animators in 1941 and the organisation in the years building up to it.
Throughout the 1930s workers of the flourishing entertainment industry of Hollywood had been organising themselves into unions. Stagehands, actors, directors, editors and writers had all successfully, albeit slowly, formed their own organisations through this massive drive for union recognition.
US: Shattuck Cinema workers are going union
Landmark Shattuck Cinema workers are fed up. Years of bad hours, poor pay, a hostile work environment and the demoralsing treatment from theatre management has led the Cinema workers of Berkeley, CA, to push for a union; for the One Big Union of the Industrial Workers of the World.
At 4pm on May 12, 2006, approximately 80 Wobblies and supporters gathered in what some hailed as one of the largest IWW gatherings in recent Bay Area history, next to the May Day contingent earlier this month.
Culture Industry Reconsidered
Theodor W. Adorno
Culture Industry Reconsidered
The term culture industry was perhaps used for the first time in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Horkheimer and I published in Amsterdam in 1947. In our drafts we spoke of 'mass culture'. We replaced that expression with 'culture industry' in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves, the contemporary form of popular art. From the latter the culture industry must be distinguished in the extreme.
