The foundation of the industry—its workforce—is in a state of unrest.
Paper: "Documentary as Artifact: The Entertainment Industry on Screen" Author: John Corner Source: The Documentary: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Image (Oxford University Press, 2007 – chapter reprint) Why it’s solid: Corner provides the theoretical scaffolding: how documentaries about filmmaking/television production function as "secondary artifacts" that shape public understanding of creative labor, risk, and reward.
The cinematic exhibition model is suffering from a "polarization of performance."