Denise Mann is a Professor in the Cinema and Media Studies program in the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Mann specializes in the fields of media industry studies, production studies, audience studies, and television studies. She is the editor of Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future (2014), co-editor of Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer (1992), and the author of Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover (2008).