Author: Miranda Banks and Kristin Lieb

Miranda J. Banks is associate professor of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. She is author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and their Guild (Rutgers UP, 2015), co-editor of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries (Routledge, 2009) and Production Studies, The Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries (2015). She is on the Board of Directors for SCMS and is a founding member of EDIT Media. Kristin J. Lieb is associate professor of marketing communication at Emerson College in Boston, MA, where she teaches courses in entertainment marketing, brand management, and gender, sexuality, and popular music. She is author of Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars (Routledge, 2013; 2nd ed. 2018).