Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry

by Robert R. Faulkner

Book Overview

In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity. Faulkner traces a network of connections that bind together filmmakers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals how work is allocated among composers and the division...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878554033
• ISBN13: 9780878554034
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.