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Co-recipient of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Innovative Pedagogy Award in 2022 for work on EDIT Media.

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Miranda Banks is a Professor of Film, Television, and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her primary area of research is the American film and television industries, with a specific focus on power dynamics in creative production. In 2022, she was a co-recipient of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Innovative Pedagogy Award.

Banks is author of "The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild" (Rutgers UP), co-editor of two collections called Production Studies (Routledge 2009 and 2015), and Media Industries in Crisis: What COVID Unmasked (Routledge, 2024). Her work has been published in Media Industries, Television and New Media, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Her most recent book co-authored with Kate Fortmueller is "Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers" (UC Press, 2026).

As an expert on the Hollywood industry, Banks has been on panels for TCM Film Festival and the Skirball Museum, and been interviewed for television, radio, podcasts including The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Harper’s Magazine, and PRX’s The World.

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