Miranda Banks

Miranda Banks is an Associate Professor within LMU’s Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies at the School of Film and Television and currently serves as Department Chair. Her primary area of research is the American film and television industries, with a specific focus on power dynamics in creative production. She authored The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (Rutgers 2015) and co-edited the collections Production Studies (Routledge, 2009) and Production Studies, The Sequel (Routledge, 2015), and Media Industries in Crisis: What COVID Unmasked (Routledge, 2024). She is co-Director of EDIT Media: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media, and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and on the Board of Console-ing Passions conference.