Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers by Banks, Miranda
Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers by Banks, Miranda

Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers

A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid...
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Author: Miranda Banks
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Language: English
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Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers by Banks, Miranda

Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers

$94.99 $49.17
Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers by Banks, Miranda

Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers

$94.99 $49.17
Author: Miranda Banks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood work

When Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the rapidly changing nature of film and television production. In Boom to Bust, media industry experts Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller combine economic and cultural analysis and interviews with industry workers to capture the lived experience of Hollywood in crisis. Tracking major disruptions of the preceding decade--including the transformation of streaming services into studios, the overproduction of series during Peak TV, as well as #MeToo and COVID--the authors explain how the conflicting interests of studio executives, creative workers, and workers' unions compelled a renegotiation of the terms of work. Grounding readers in the history of Hollywood labor negotiations, the authors provide a road map to make sense of Hollywood's present--and what comes next.



Author: Miranda Banks,Kate Fortmueller
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/14/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780520412880


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2026

About the Author
Miranda Banks is Professor of Film, Television, and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University, author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild, and coeditor of Production Studies.

Kate Fortmueller is Associate Professor of Film and Media History at Georgia State University and author of Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production and Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID.
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