University of California Press is pleased to announce a new publication:

HIDDEN TALENT: THE EMERGENCE OF HOLLYWOOD AGENTS by Tom Kemper

"A landmark volume." -- Toby Miller

In this first-ever history of
Hollywood agents, Tom Kemper mines agency archives to present an
insider's view on their tooth-and-claw rise to power during the studio
era. Existing studies
characterize agents as a product of the 1950s, but Kemper revises the
record to show how agents emerged from the primordial film industry
during the late 1920s and carved themselves a permanent niche.


312 pages, 19 b/w photographs


paperback $21.95 (9780520257078)
cloth $55 (9780520257061)



For more information, visit:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11178.php


Information on review copies: http://www.ucpress.edu/press/review.php



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