What is it like when your area of expertise is suddenly in the news? When the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes began, industry scholars Kate Fortmueller and Miranda Banks suddenly found themselves in demand, fielding dozens of interview requests from a range of news outlets. We talk with them about how they are talking about the strikes with the press and students. Then Chris and Michael banter about Michael’s recent appearance on the Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone podcast.

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LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE

Kate Fortmueller’s Georgia State University bio page, Twitter, and Bluesky
Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production
Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID
Q&A with Fortmueller in The Atlantic: “The People Who Make Your Favorite Movies and Shows Are Fed Up”
Fortmueller, “The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds,” LA Review of Books, May 19, 2023
Ellen Seiter
Miranda Banks’s Loyola Marymount bio page and University of Michigan bio page, Twitter
The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild
Production Studies and Production Studies, The Sequel!
EDIT Media: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media
Banks and Fortmueller, “Unity will determine if the Hollywood writers strike is successful,” Washington Post, June 22, 2023
WGA West: A History of WGA Contract Negotiations and Gains
2007 In Media Res Strike-Themed Week
Fran Drescher’s July 13, 2023, speech about the SAG-AFTRA strike
Kim Masters and The Business Podcast
The Town with Matt Belloni
The Hollywood Reporter’s Katie Kilkenny & Winston Cho
Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast
Fortmueller’s Resources for Teaching the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strike
Jennifer Holt
Andrew deWaard
“Practice Radical Empathy” Flag

Banter

Nobody listens to Paula Poundstone, “TV is History! With Michael Kackman”
“Betty White defied racist demands in 1954”
CNET: “Why is ATSC 3.0 Taking So Long?”
Janko Roettgers, “The Future of TV is Up in the Air”
LA Times: Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher are Weapons in the Writers’ Strike