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The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing ... more The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America.
Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson—The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New York over the past century. Granted unprecedented access to the archives of the Writers Guild Foundation, Miranda J. Banks also mines over 100 never-before-published oral histories with legends such as Nora Ephron and Ring Lardner Jr., whose insight and humor provide a window onto the enduring priorities, policies, and practices of the Writers Guild.
With an ear for the language of storytellers, Banks deftly analyzes watershed moments in the industry: the advent of sound, World War II, the blacklist, ascension of television, the American New Wave, the rise and fall of VHS and DVD, and the boom of streaming media. The Writers spans historical and contemporary moments, and draws upon American cultural history, film and television scholarship and the passionate politics of labor and management. Published on the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Writers Guild of America, this book tells the story of the triumphs and struggles of these vociferous and contentious hero-makers.
Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and d... more Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting.
Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel! takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion about the past, present, and future of production studies.
Papers by Miranda Banks
How to Watch Television, Second Edition
Feminist media studies has observed a series of significant milestones in recent years: 2015 mark... more Feminist media studies has observed a series of significant milestones in recent years: 2015 marked the fortieth anniversary of Laura Mulvey's landmark essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”; Camera Obscura , a groundbreaking journal in our field, celebrated its own fortieth anniversary in
The Velvet Light Trap, 2018
Media Industries Journal, 2019
Feminist Media Histories, 2018
Feminist Media Histories, 2018
This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during ... more This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during the long 1970s, focusing on interventions by government agencies, trade unions, and individual writers and producers, with a particular focus on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 1974 Women's Committee Report, the first major statistical survey to track the representation of women as creatives within American television. This article puts qualitative and quantitative data in direct conversation: where one captures the nuances of personal experience and the other highlights the extent of inequality, together they help fill gaps in understanding the long history of struggles for equity in media production.
Labour / Le Travail, 2017
European Journal of Communication, 2016
field and overshadowing the study of content, production and consumption, this highly original an... more field and overshadowing the study of content, production and consumption, this highly original and thought-provoking volume does a good job of pointing out the remaining gaps in the field and makes a strong case for considering distribution from technological, economic and political standpoints. Media infrastructures indeed are not neutral but embedded within systems of power and inequality, and this volume opens up potentially new and revealing lines of inquiry in the study of contemporary media distribution.
The Sociological Review, 2015
This article explores the role of stunt women in film and television production, and considers th... more This article explores the role of stunt women in film and television production, and considers their contribution to the construction of on-screen action heroines. Combining feminist theory with interviews with professional stunt women, the article illuminates stunt women's strategically hidden professional labour: on the set, on the screen, and in the popular press.
Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and d... more Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting. Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel! takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion ...
The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing ... more The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America.
Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson—The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New York over the past century. Granted unprecedented access to the archives of the Writers Guild Foundation, Miranda J. Banks also mines over 100 never-before-published oral histories with legends such as Nora Ephron and Ring Lardner Jr., whose insight and humor provide a window onto the enduring priorities, policies, and practices of the Writers Guild.
With an ear for the language of storytellers, Banks deftly analyzes watershed moments in the industry: the advent of sound, World War II, the blacklist, ascension of television, the American New Wave, the rise and fall of VHS and DVD, and the boom of streaming media. The Writers spans historical and contemporary moments, and draws upon American cultural history, film and television scholarship and the passionate politics of labor and management. Published on the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Writers Guild of America, this book tells the story of the triumphs and struggles of these vociferous and contentious hero-makers.
Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and d... more Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting.
Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel! takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion about the past, present, and future of production studies.
How to Watch Television, Second Edition
Feminist media studies has observed a series of significant milestones in recent years: 2015 mark... more Feminist media studies has observed a series of significant milestones in recent years: 2015 marked the fortieth anniversary of Laura Mulvey's landmark essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”; Camera Obscura , a groundbreaking journal in our field, celebrated its own fortieth anniversary in
The Velvet Light Trap, 2018
Media Industries Journal, 2019
Feminist Media Histories, 2018
Feminist Media Histories, 2018
This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during ... more This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during the long 1970s, focusing on interventions by government agencies, trade unions, and individual writers and producers, with a particular focus on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 1974 Women's Committee Report, the first major statistical survey to track the representation of women as creatives within American television. This article puts qualitative and quantitative data in direct conversation: where one captures the nuances of personal experience and the other highlights the extent of inequality, together they help fill gaps in understanding the long history of struggles for equity in media production.
Labour / Le Travail, 2017
European Journal of Communication, 2016
field and overshadowing the study of content, production and consumption, this highly original an... more field and overshadowing the study of content, production and consumption, this highly original and thought-provoking volume does a good job of pointing out the remaining gaps in the field and makes a strong case for considering distribution from technological, economic and political standpoints. Media infrastructures indeed are not neutral but embedded within systems of power and inequality, and this volume opens up potentially new and revealing lines of inquiry in the study of contemporary media distribution.
The Sociological Review, 2015
This article explores the role of stunt women in film and television production, and considers th... more This article explores the role of stunt women in film and television production, and considers their contribution to the construction of on-screen action heroines. Combining feminist theory with interviews with professional stunt women, the article illuminates stunt women's strategically hidden professional labour: on the set, on the screen, and in the popular press.
Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and d... more Production Studies, The Sequel! explores the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting. Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel! takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion ...
Popular Communication, 2010
... Reisman, D. 2009. Personal communication with Miranda Banks , April 2 View all references). .... more ... Reisman, D. 2009. Personal communication with Miranda Banks , April 2 View all references). ... Lilly, C. 2009. Personal communication with Miranda Banks , May 16 View all references). Los Angeles Times television reporter Scott Collins (2008)5. Collins, S. (2008, February 18). ...
Explores the role of stunt women in film and television produc- tion, and considers their contrib... more Explores the role of stunt women in film and television produc- tion, and considers their contribution to the construction of on-screen action heroines. Combining feminist theory with interviews with professional stunt women, the article illuminates stunt women’s strategically hidden professional labour: on the set, on the screen, and in the popular press.
As a scholar interested in media production, I examine stories – not so much as the fruits of wri... more As a scholar interested in media production, I examine stories – not so much as the fruits of writers' labour (scripts, films, series and games) – but rather, the lived experiences of writers as media professionals, the conditions of their art and craft and how the economic, industrial and political changes they saw were reflected back through the policies and the activities of the Writers' Guild. This task of collecting individual histories – each potentially tainted with faulty memories, individual opinions, political agendas and missing details – has been described by multiple writer interviewees as ‘a kind of Rashomon’. With so many voices and versions of the narrative available, this paper explores critical questions of theory and method and the creation of meaning when working with oral history.