Entertainment guild membership and agent access form a closed hiring loop
Evidence
Finding an agent and getting membership in the entertainment guilds was not an easy task. I discovered you had to have worked on a union show before you could join any of the film or television unions, but you had be a member of one or more unions before any agent worth having would see you or any film production company could legally hire you. I found a way to get around the catch-22 by auditioning to be a contestant on The $1.98 Beauty Show. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 18
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in institutional gatekeeping and closed loops, akin to the law merchant and guild systems from other books. — connects to: The entertainment guilds’ membership rules created a closed hiring loop — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 18; A following around 10,000 unlocked access to closed influencer circles — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 653
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Broader Connections
- The entertainment guilds’ membership rules created a closed hiring loop
#corroborates(1.00) — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 18 - A following around 10,000 unlocked access to closed influencer circles
#exemplifies(0.70) — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 653