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Data dictates Hollywood’s future, reshaping creativity and power dynamics.

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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Data-Driven Hollywood by Violaine Roussel - ISBN: 9780691251417
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Critics Review

“Valuable… . A history of the near past, tracked in rich detail.”—Will Viney, Times Literary Supplement

About The Author

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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