The global ripples of the Hollywood strike

The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has joined Hollywood writers in a strike that is shaking the American film industry. At this point, The Writers Guild of America has been on strike for about three months. The World’s Carolyn Beeler talks with Miranda Banks, associate professor of film, television and media Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles about the effect of the strike on global filmmaking so far. 

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