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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