Vicki Mayer is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She is author of Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media.

Miranda J. Banks is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College.

John Thornton Caldwell is Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. He has authored and edited several books, including Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television, Electronic Media and Technoculture, New Media: Digitextual Theories and Practices, and Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television.

Introduction: Production Studies: Roots and Routes, Vicki Mayer, Miranda J. 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, AmandaD. Lotz

3. Leo C. Rosten's Hollywood: Power, Status, and the Primacy of Economic and Social Networks in Cultural Production, John L. Sullivan

4. Privilege and Distinction in Production Worlds: Copyright, Collective Bargaining, and Working Conditions in Media Making, Matt Stahl

Part Two: Producers: Selves and Others

5. Self-Serve Celebrity: The Production of Ordinariess and the Ordinariness of Production in Reality Television, Laura Grindstaff

6. Feminism Below-the-Line: Defining Feminist Production Studies, Miranda J. Banks

7. It's Not TV, It's Brand Management TV: The Collective Author(s) of the Lost Franchise, Denise Mann

8. Showrunning the Doctor Who Franchise: A Response to Denise Mann, Christine Cornea

Part Three: Production Spaces: Centers and Peripheries

9. Liminal Places and Spaces: Public/Private Considerations, Candace Moore

10. "Not in Kansas Anymore": Transnational Collaboration in Television Science Fiction Production, Jane Landman

11. Crossing the Border: Studying Canadian Television Production, Elana Levine

12. Borders of Production Research: A Response to Elana Levine, Serra Tinic

Part Four: Production as Lived Experience

13. Studying Sideways: Ethnographic Access in Hollywood, Sherry Ortner

14. Audience Knowledge and the Everyday Lives of Cultural Producers in Hollywood, Stephen Zafirau

15. Lights, Camera, but Where's the Action? Actor-Network Theory and the Production of Robert Connolly's Three Dollars, Oli Mould

16. Both Sides of the Fence: Blurred Distinctions in Scholarhip and Production (A Portfoloio of Interviews), John Caldwell. The Craft Association, Paul Malcolm. Hollywood Assistanting, Erin Hill. The Writer's Room, Felicia D. Henderson.

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List of Contributors

Index