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    • Mary Jane Fort, costume designer

    Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson

    Chapter from the book: Curtin M. & Sanson K. 2017. Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood.

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    Mary Jane Fort has more than two decades of experience as a costume designer on feature films such as Mean Girls and television shows such as Grounded for Life. In this conversation, Fort explains the little known aspects of the costume designer’s job, as well as such issues as creative collaboration, emotional labor, and gender dynamics on the set.

    Disciplines:

    Media studies Social science 

    Keywords:

    Runaway production Gender Compensation Work/life balance Local hires Productivity pressures Costume design Emotional labor Invisible labor Budget 

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    Curtin M. & Sanson K. 2017. Mary Jane Fort, costume designer. In: Curtin M. & Sanson K, Voices of Labor. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.26.g
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    Published on March 3, 2017

    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.26.g