Co-Managing Editors
Linda Kopitz connects her professional experience as a Creative Director with her interdisciplinary academic work to explore the role of technology in everyday meaning-making. She is currently working as a Lecturer in Cross-Media Culture in the Netherlands, where her main research interest lies in the intersection of media and space as a negotiation of the past, present and future. Bringing together her academic and editorial work, she is also an assistant editor for the European Journal of Cultural Studies and member of the steering committee of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS).
Adam Ochonicky is Associate Professor of English in the School of Media, Arts, and Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. His research and teaching primarily focus on nostalgia and regionalism across a variety of mediums, contexts, and eras. He is the author of The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism (Indiana University Press, 2020). His work has appeared in journals and collections such as Science Fiction Film and Television, Adaptation, Horror Studies, Screening the Past, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Flyover Fictions: Polarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia (Routledge, 2024), and ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
Cortland Rankin is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor, with Brady Fletcher, of Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments (Rutgers University Press, 2026). His research centers on the intersections of cinema and American urbanism, with particular attention to the imaging of cities in crisis, and on cultural representations of war and militarism in film and television, including the entangled relations among war, media, and urbanism. His work has appeared in the Journal of Popular Film & Television, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, and Millennium Film Journal, as well as in the edited volumes Hollywood Remembrance and American War (Routledge, 2020) and Screening American Independent Film (Routledge, 2023).
Section Editors
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 everyday and professionalised media production practices, urban and local politics, and ethnographic and quali-quant 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. LinkedIn
Q&A EDITOR
Michael D. Dwyer is Professor of Media and Communication and Norman Johnston Faculty Fellow at Arcadia University, where he teaches courses in film history, media studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties (Oxford University Press, 2015). He lives in Philadelphia with his partner Rachel Collins.
READING and RESOURCE LISTS EDITOR
Lawrence Webb is Associate Professor 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).
FROM THE ARCHIVE EDITOR
Floris Paalman is the coordinator of the MA program in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam. He has a background in filmmaking, anthropology, media studies, and urbanism. His teaching and research focus on audiovisual archival theory, curating, film historiography, and the archiving of political films.
STUDENT VOICES EDITOR
Dr Anna Viola Sborgi is Assistant Lecturer in Intersectional Media and Film Studies at TU Dublin, Ireland. Her research investigates film and media representations of London, the home and housing and gentrification. She was previously a Research Fellow at The School of Media and Communication of The University of Leeds on the team project ‘What’s on?’ Rethinking class in the television industry” She was formerly a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, where she carried out the project MEDIAHOMES. She holds a PhD in Film Studies (King’s College London) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Genoa). With Liz Patton, she co-edited the Special Issue of Alphaville, “Home as a Site of Resistance”. At Mediapolis, she is Student Voices/On Teaching section editor, email her at anna.sborgi@tudublin.ie for proposals for the section.
Editorial Board
Johan Andersson is Reader in Urban Cultural Geography at King’s College London. He is the editor, with Lawrence Webb, of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2016) and The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Ipek A. Celik-Rappas is Associate Professor of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University, Istanbul. She is the author of In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in European Media and Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025). Her research focuses on the intersections of media, incarceration, race, and urban space. She investigates how carceral communities become media producers, and explores slow, sustainable, non-extractivist modes of media production across Europe and Turkey.
Pei-Sze Chow is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and New Media at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She was previously a faculty member at the University of Amsterdam and Aarhus University. She researches the social, cultural, and political implications of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on the labor of creative professionals in the screen industries and broader cultural and creative sectors, with a focus on Singapore and Asian contexts. More.
Noelle Griffis is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Marymount Manhattan College. Her research on location production, film policy, urban development, and media activism has been published in JCMS, Black Camera, and several edited volumes, including The Routledge Companion to Media and the City. Noelle co-chairs the SCMS Urbanism, Geography, and Architecture SIG.
Nathan Holmes is an Associate Professor in the School of Film and Media Studies at SUNY Purchase College. He is the author of Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination (2018) as well as essays on the relations between film, architecture, and the built environment in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Imaginations, and the collection Race and the Suburbs in American Cinema, among others. He is currently working on a project on postwar Canadian cinema entitled Dreamworld of Social Democracy and has contributed critical essays to recent blu-ray releases of 1970s Canadian films like The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Heavenly Bodies, and The Rubber Gun.
Conn Holohan the Director of the Centre for Creative Technologies and a lecturer in film and media at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway. His research focuses on representations of space and place in film and immersive media, with particular focus on images of home. His upcoming monograph, The Home in Hollywood Melodrama will be published in 2026 by Rutgers University Press
Robert Joseph is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton. His research and teaching focuses on cinematic cityscapes, modes of film production, and representations of Hell and the apocalypse. His work has been published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Journal of Religion & Film. His current research project is exploring the history of Cincinnati in cinema.
Helen Morgan Parmett is the Edwin W. Lawrence Endowed Professor of Forensics and Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film and TV Studies at the University of Vermont. She is also Director of the Lawrence Debate Union and a core affiliate faculty member of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. Helen’s research and teaching centers on critical media studies, where she focuses especially on relationships among media, identity, and space/place. Her research considers how media production practices (particularly those of radio, TV, new media, and sports media) are implicated in spatiality and the constitution of place and identity. She is author of two monographs—Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019) and Stadium City: Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2025)—along with several book chapters and journal articles.
Kim Wilkins is Professor of Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo, where she is also Head of the Screen Cultures program and co-director of the Media Aesthetics research group. She is the author of American Eccentric Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2019), Gentrifying Scenes: Cities on Screen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) as well as numerous journal articles and anthology essays on contemporary culture, film, and television. She the co-editor of the volumes Refocus: The Films of Richard Linklater (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), The Body Swap Film (Berghahn, 2026), A24: Culture, Aesthetics, Identity (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming), Radical Auteur: The Cinema of Ari Aster (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), and the 2024 “Metamodern Pastiche” dossier in the journal Screen.
Ling Zhang is Associate Professor of cinema studies at SUNY Purchase College. Her research explores film sound and acoustic culture, Chinese-language cinema and digital media, and the cultural Cold War. She co-edited Socializing Medicine (Hong Kong UP, 2025) and is completing two monographs, respectively on 1920s-1940s Chinese Cinema and Transnational Acoustic Culture, and 1950s-1980s Traveling Media and Solidarity Sensorium in China and the World. Her work appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Film Quarterly.