TAILIEUCHUNG - Recession and Regression The 2011 Hollywood Writers Report

Power has been defined in a variety of different ways by sociologists and political scientists so it behooves us to review those definitions before launching into an exploration of the imagery of power. The simplest definition of power is an ability to get others to do something that they would not otherwise have done. This is sometimes referred to as power as “capabilities” or “potential” power and is measured in terms of the attributes of the social actor that allegedly possesses it. An individual is powerful if she is rich, well-educated, a member of a social elite, etc. A country is powerful if it is big in. | Recession and Regression The 2011 Hollywood Writers Report The 2011 Hollywood Writers Report provides an update on the progress of women minority and older writers on the employment and earnings fronts. The previous report - released in 2009 by the Writers Guild of America West WGAW - found little progress over earlier reports revealing that white males continued to dominate employment opportunities and earnings in both the film and television sectors. While the situation was more mixed for older writers women and minority writers experienced little progress if any relative to their male and white counterparts. The report announced a new WGAW initiative designed to address the stagnation in the television sector the Writer Access Project which is a script-judging contest designed to identify mid-level diverse writers who appeal to showrunners looking to staff their shows. But since 2007 the last year covered in the previous Hollywood Writers Report the nation s economic fortunes have taken a serious turn for the worse. The Great Recession of 2008 triggered by the bursting of the bubble in the nation s housing markets was marked by a collapse of the financial markets a tightening of credit millions of housing foreclosures millions of lost jobs1 and significant declines in consumer spending. The impact on the Hollywood industry seems to have been felt most acutely in the film sector. Whereas television production was more or less flat between 2007 and 20092 the number of theatrical films produced in the United States declined percent from 909 to just Meanwhile the WGA unemployment rate increased percentage points since the last report from percent in 2007 to percent to 2009 -- which was driven by a percent decline in the number of employed writers from 4501 in 2007 to 4236 in 2009 . The road toward economic justice in America is a windy one and progress has been most direct in good economic times. The current recession has clearly done .

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