Data-Driven Hollywood
The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
Data-Driven Hollywood: The rise of Hollywood’s data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisions
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content and production. In Data-Driven Hollywood, Violaine Roussel examines the emergence of this new category of professionals at the heart of the Hollywood dream factory. Roussel s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691251417 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 069125141X |
| Author: | Violaine Roussel |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology |

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“Valuable… . A history of the near past, tracked in rich detail.”—Will Viney, Times Literary Supplement
Violaine Roussel
Violaine Roussel is professor of sociology at the University of Paris 8 and research fellow at the Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA). She is the author of Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies, How to Do Politics with Art, and other books.
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