In 2007, members of the Writers Guild of America, a labor union of writers for various industries including film and television, began a one hundred day strike in protest of low writers’ funding compared to studios’ copious profits. The strike resulted in the American film industry losing an estimated $380 million and cost the writers nearly $285 million
For recent generations of Americans (who grew up in the time when mass media marketing had become deeply ingrained into youth culture), childhood nostalgia often comes in the form of TV shows and movies. Millennials and members of Gen Z remember what it was like to purchase dolls and action figures of our favorite movie
