Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media.

Organizational Mediation of Project-Based Labor Markets: Talent Agencies and the Careers of Screenwriters

“…Bielby 1993, 1996; W. D. Bielby 1992, 1993;Dates and Barlow 1990;Francke 1994;Gray 1993;McCreadie 1994).…”

“…Accordingly, we hypothesize that writers represented by elite, core agencies have substantially higher levels of career success than do writers with comparable track records who are not represented by such agencies. We also assess whether limited access to mediating organizations marginalizes women, minority, and older writers in the networks of recurrent contracting, thus partially explaining gender, race, and age differentials in career success in culture industries (D. Bielby and W. Bielby , 1996; W. Bielby and D. Bielby 1992Dates and Barlow 1990;Francke 1994;Gray 1993;McCreadie 1994).…”