Miranda Banks is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College and a research fellow in the Emerson Engagement Lab. She is author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild and co-editor of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. Bridget Conor is a lecturer in the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London. She is the author of Screenwriting: Creative Labour and Professional Practice and the co-editor, with Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor, of Gender and Creative Labour. Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She has published widely on media production and producers, and is the author of Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy and Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media.
"""Banks, Conor, and Mayer have delivered one of the rare sequels that surpasses the vision of the original. This collection brilliantly details developments in production cultures across an impressive range of media industries, publics, and global contexts. In the process, it offers a host of inspired views into the material conditions and cultural dimensions of media production."" —Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara"