Never done a history of women's work in media production

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Never Done introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry-from dressmakers to secretaries to script readers. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as merely menial workers, media historian Erin Hill shows how their labor required considerable technical and interpersonal skills. As it pores through rare archives and integrates the firsthand accounts of women employed in the film industry, this book gives a voice to women whose work was indispensable yet largely invisible.;Introduction -- Paper trail: efficiency, clerical labor, and women in the early film industry -- Studio tours: feminized labor in the studio system -- The Girl Friday and how she grew: female clerical workers and/as the system -- "His acolyte on the altar of cinema": the studio secretary's creative service -- Studio girls: women's professions in media production -- Epilogue: the legacy of "women's work" in contemporary Hollywood. Introduction -- Paper trail: efficiency, clerical labor, and women in the early film industry -- Studio tours: feminized labor in the studio system -- The Girl Friday and how she grew: female clerical workers and/as the system -- "His acolyte on the altar of cinema": the studio secretary's creative service -- Studio girls: women's professions in media production -- Epilogue: the legacy of "women's work" in contemporary Hollywood.