Denise Mann recently edited the book, "Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future," which was released early this month by Rutgers University Press. "Wired TV" collects writings from a number of scholars to look at the post-network television industry's experiments with interactive storytelling that took place from 2005 to 2010 in response to the availability of broadband and social media.
Mann has been the head of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Producers Program for nearly 20 years and is an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on contemporary entertainment industry practices as well as critical studies seminars on film and television history and theory.
In the past, Mann has authored “Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover,” co-edited “Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer” and served as associate editor of the feminist and film theory journal, Camera Obscura. Mann received her B.A. in English literature at the UC Berkeley, as well as an M.F.A. in production/directing and a Ph.D. in cinema and media studies at UCLA.
Featured in "Wired TV" are chapters authored by Denise Mann and fellow professor of film, television and digital media, John Caldwell.
