Miranda J Banks
Biographic Data
| ID | 219036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda J Banks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda J |
| FAMILY NAME | Banks |
| SIGNATURE | BANKS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emerson College |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3695-345X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Production Studies
Since writing a genealogy affords an author a position of some (albeit here, small) influence, I will take advantage of this platform to make a bold claim: production studies is a feminist methodology. At its core, it production studies often resists or complicates traditional power hierarchies, it has its origins in a nonbinary interdisciplinarity, and it has a capacity to highlight cultural inequities. Though there are production studies schola…
Unequal Opportunities
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…
The Heroic Body
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
Oral History and Media Industries
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 – ea…
The Picket Line Online
During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, feature and television writers turned to the digital sphere as a tactical strategy for representation, visibility, and promotion. While the growing interest in digital distribution was the impetus for this strike, it was also the medium that enabled writers to successfully communicate with each other, with the media industry, and with the general public. This article examines three major…
Production Studies
Introduction: Production Studies: Roots and Routes, Vicki Mayer, Miranda Banks, and John Thornton Caldwell. Part One: Histories of Media Production Studies. 1. Bringing the Social Back In: Studies of Production Cultures and Social Theory, Vicki Mayer. 2. Industry-Level Studies and the Contributions of Gitlin's Inside Prime Time, Amanda Lotz 3. Leo C. Rosten's Hollywood: Power, Status, and the Primacy of Economic and Social Networks in Cultural Pr…
My Media Studies
Monumental Fictions
The representation of national monuments in science fiction film can celebrate or distort their traditional symbolism, for the sake of pure spectacle and to embody universal ideals. Three models for how monuments are portrayed are outlined: as a specific landmark, as a site of mass destruction, and as a ruin of civilization
The Picket Line Online
During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, feature and television writers turned to the digital sphere as a tactical strategy for representation, visibility, and promotion. While the growing interest in digital distribution was the impetus for this strike, it was also the medium that enabled writers to successfully communicate with each other, with the media industry, and with the general public. This article examines three major…
The Heroic Body
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
Monumental Fictions
The representation of national monuments in science fiction film can celebrate or distort their traditional symbolism, for the sake of pure spectacle and to embody universal ideals. Three models for how monuments are portrayed are outlined: as a specific landmark, as a site of mass destruction, and as a ruin of civilization
Monumental Fictions
The representation of national monuments in science fiction film can celebrate or distort their traditional symbolism, for the sake of pure spectacle and to embody universal ideals. Three models for how monuments are portrayed are outlined: as a specific landmark, as a site of mass destruction, and as a ruin of civilization
My Media Studies
Production Studies
Introduction: Production Studies: Roots and Routes, Vicki Mayer, Miranda Banks, and John Thornton Caldwell. Part One: Histories of Media Production Studies. 1. Bringing the Social Back In: Studies of Production Cultures and Social Theory, Vicki Mayer. 2. Industry-Level Studies and the Contributions of Gitlin's Inside Prime Time, Amanda Lotz 3. Leo C. Rosten's Hollywood: Power, Status, and the Primacy of Economic and Social Networks in Cultural Pr…
The Picket Line Online
During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, feature and television writers turned to the digital sphere as a tactical strategy for representation, visibility, and promotion. While the growing interest in digital distribution was the impetus for this strike, it was also the medium that enabled writers to successfully communicate with each other, with the media industry, and with the general public. This article examines three major…
Oral History and Media Industries
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 – ea…
The Heroic Body
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
Since writing a genealogy affords an author a position of some (albeit here, small) influence, I will take advantage of this platform to make a bold claim: production studies is a feminist methodology. At its core, it production studies often resists or complicates traditional power hierarchies, it has its origins in a nonbinary interdisciplinarity, and it has a capacity to highlight cultural inequities. Though there are production studies schola…
Unequal Opportunities
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…
Sociology (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)