tailieunhanh - Rewriting an All-Too-Familiar Story?

Hollywood’s loss, in terms of the general narrowing of the horizons of possibility at the heart of the studio-led machine, was to be the gain of a newly consolidating form of independent production and distribution that was beginning to take shape during the 1980s, and into which some of the inheritance of the Renaissance was carried. The term ‘independent’ has had rather different connotations at different periods in the history of American cinema. In the 1930s, for example, it signified ‘something less than trash’. In the late 1950s and early 1960s it might have suggested both the innovations of the ‘American. | WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA WEST THE 2009 HOLLYWOOD WRITERS REPORT Rewriting an All-Too-Familiar Story Prepared by Darnell M. Hunt . Director Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA May 2009 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures I. BACKROUND AND INTRODUCTION 7 Organization of the Report A Note on Other Groups of Writers II. STUDY DATA 9 Missing Data Earnings Statistics Production Companies Comparing Tables and Figures to the 2007 Hollywood Writers Report III. OVERALL TRENDS 12 Membership Employment Earnings White Males Continue to Dominate in Overall Earnings Minority Earnings Approach Those for Women Conclusion IV. WOMEN WRITERS 17 Television Employment Women Writers Share of Television Employment Remains Flat Film Employment Women Writers Share of Film Employment Remains Flat Television Earnings Gender Earnings Gap in Television Shrinks a Bit Film Earnings Large Gender Gap in Film Peaks Conclusion V. MINORITY WRITERS 20 Television Employment Minority Share of Television Employment Declines Slightly Film Employment Minority Share of Film Employment Remains Flat Television Earnings 3 Television Earnings Gap for Minorities Closes Since Last Report Film Earnings Film Earnings Gap for Minorities Peaks Conclusion VI. OLDER WRITERS 24 Television Employment Employment Share for Largest Group of Older Television Writers Remains Unchanged Post Baby Boomers Increase Their Majority Share of Television Employment Film Employment Post Baby Boomers Increase Their Majority Share of Film Employment Employment Rate for Each Group of Older Writers Remains Flat or Increases Television Earnings Television Earnings Continue to Peak Among Older Writers Film Earnings Writers Aged 61-70 Become Highest Paid Film Writers Conclusion VII. EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS TRENDS BY COMPANY 28 The Industry Landscape in 2007 Overall Employment The Employment of Women Writers The Employment of Minority Writers The Employment of Over-40 Writers Earnings Comparisons Conclusion