How do status orders emerge in cultural fields? Our study sheds new light on this question by investigating the interplay of networks and status among Hollywood filmmakers from 1920 to 2000. Information on artistic references and collaborations of more than 9,500 filmmakers retrieved from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) allows us to examine long-term changes in the social organization of this cultural field. Our findings suggest that the distribution of social recognition—measured by filmmakers’ prominence in collaborative ties and artistic references—became more stratified as the field grew. Furthermore, collaborations increasingly exhibited segregation according to filmmakers’ artistic status during the New Hollywood era (1960–1980). This period was characterized by the rising prominence of a new generation of filmmakers who established film as an art form in the U.S. This article shows that contextual characteristics, such as a field's size and institutional environment, can foster or impede stratification and segregation in collaborative networks among cultural producers.

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文化领域的网络和艺术地位顺序：好莱坞电影制作的演变

地位顺序在文化领域是如何出现的？我们的研究通过调查 1920 年至 2000 年好莱坞电影制作人网络和地位的相互作用，为这个问题提供了新的视角。从互联网电影数据库 （IMDb） 中检索到 9,500 多名电影制作人的艺术参考和合作信息，使我们能够研究这一文化领域社会组织的长期变化。我们的研究结果表明，随着该领域的发展，社会认可的分布——以电影制作人在合作关系和艺术参考中的突出程度来衡量——变得更加分层。此外，在新好莱坞时代（1960-1980 年），合作越来越多地表现出根据电影制作人的艺术地位的隔离。这一时期的特点是新一代电影制作人日益突出，他们将电影确立为一种在美国的艺术形式。本文表明，环境特征，例如场的大小和机构环境，可以促进或阻碍文化生产者之间协作网络中的分层和隔离。