Lawrence Webb – Managing Editor
Lawrence Webb is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City (Amsterdam University Press, 2014). He is co-editor of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (Wallflower Press, 2016), Hollywood On Location: An Industry History (Rutgers University Press, 2019), and The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Elizabeth Patton – Managing Editor
Elizabeth Patton is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her book, Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office (Rutgers University Press, 2020), examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and by the communication and real estate industries through mass media during the 20th century. Her research can also be found in the journals of Media History, Technology and Culture, and the New Review of Film and Television Studies.
Noelle Griffis – Reviews Editor
Noelle Griffis recently received her PhD in Film and Media Studies from Indiana University after defending her dissertation “Filmmaking to Save a City in Crisis: On Location in New York, 1966-1974.” She is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. She has worked as an organizer of the Orphan Film Symposium (Orphans Midwest) and recently published in Black Camera. Griffis was previously the graduate representative for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Urbanism, Architecture, and Geography Scholarly Interest Group.
Scott Rodgers – Audio Editor
Scott Rodgers is Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. His research specializes in the relationships of media and cities and the geographies of communication. Scott also has broad interests in media production practices, digital and networked technologies, journalism, urban politics and ethnographic methodologies. His publications have appeared in journals such as Society and Space, City and Community, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Space and Culture and Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.