Denise Mann

• Associate Professor; Head, Producers Program
• Office: 203E East Melnitz
• E-mail:
• Phone: 310-825-9218

Biography

Denise Mann, Associate Professor and head of the UCLA Producers Program, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on contemporary entertainment industry practices as well as critical studies seminars on film and television history and theory.

Mann routinely delivers talks at scholarly conferences and delivers industry talks at international film festivals and conferences such as the Tokyo International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival and at major universities in Asia and Europe, Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Shanghai University, Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and Institut National de L’Audiovisuel (INA). She serves as a consultant to Creek and River Co., a media management firm in Tokyo, and serves on the board of the Association Internationale des Medias (AIM) in Paris.

Mann co-edited “Private Screenings: Television & the Female Consumer” (Minnesota, 1992) and has published articles on television and consumer culture in a range of journals. Mann served as an associate editor on “Camera Obscura,” a journal of feminism and film theory, for six years (1986-1992). Her most recent book is “Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover, “ (Minnesota, 2008).

Mann recently co-chaired, with Professor Henry Jenkins of USC, two landmark academic conferences: “Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the Story,” at USC, and “TV Showrunners: The Hollywood Geek Elite Debates the Future of Television,” at the Hotel Bonaventura, Los Angeles.