Oral History and Media Industries
Theorizing the personal in production history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18967670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miranda J Banks (0009-0004-3695-345X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 545-560 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2014.888921 |
| OpenAlex | W1856723512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Craft · Economics · Epistemology · Literature · Management · Media studies · Narrative · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Scripting language · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Identity and Representation · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |