Vol. 1 № 4

A Tribute to Doreen Massey
Remembrance

In This Issue

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 5August 27, 2020

Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic

By Scott Rodgers

Scott Rodgers explores the novelties and continuities of emergent, very local uses of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what they indicate about our deepening interdependencies with platforms.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 24, 2020

COVID Nights

By Will Straw

Will Straw analyzes nocturnal videos that reveal the scale of night-time cultures happening during the COVID-19 lockdown and the role of the pandemic in highlighting ongoing policy debates about urban lighting, urban noise, and spectacle.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 20, 2020

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

By Shanti Sumartojo et al

A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 17, 2020

Mobilizing Inter-Mediacies: Reflections on Urban Scenographies in (Post-)Lockdown Cities

By Nanna Verhoeff & Sigrid Merx

Sigrid Merx and Nanna Verhoeff examine scenographic figurations of urban space in the physically distanced city to help us understand how protests and the pandemic have provoked questions and answers about how and for what public space can be used and by whom.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 14, 2020

Media and the Physically Distanced City

By Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer

In their introductory essay, dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer examine how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media.

no. 2, Screening Canada, vol. 5July 5, 2020

Revisiting Lists in a Time of Rebellion

By Malini Guha

What are the potentials and pitfalls of the list in a moment of rebellion? Malini Guha looks at the cultural politics of the anti-racist film list in the context of Black Lives Matter.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 5July 3, 2020

You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished

By Eleni Kalantzi

In “You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished,” Eleni Kalantzi exposes the inner thoughts and emotions of a student on what’s happening on the “outside.”

no. 3, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 5August 10, 2020

The Mediapolis Q&A: Priya Jaikumar on Where Histories Reside

By Sushmita Banerji

In this issue’s Mediapolis Q&A, film scholar Sushmita Banerji interviews Priya Jaikumar on her most recent book Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space.

no. 2, Q & A, vol. 5June 12, 2020

The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce’s Painting Publics

By Claire Sisco King

Claire King interviews Caitlin Bruce on her new book, Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 4October 9, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies

By Angelo Restivo

In this installment of the Mediapolis Q&A, Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz about his new book Cinematic Cryptonomies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film.

no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 4June 22, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes

By Noelle Griffis

Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.