The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes
Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.
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Notes on the Personal Archive: A Response to Giorgia Piffaretti
As a response to Giorgia Piffaretti, Floris Paalman elaborates on her model of the newsstand in relationship to personal archives and archival value.
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A NEW(S) STAND: UNFOLDING LAYERS OF MEANING – archival praxis, between observation, projection and imagination
In this installment of ‘from the archive’, Swiss artist Giorgia Piffaretti focuses on the subject of ‘personal archive’. Starting from her own archive, she recognizes potential in everyday objects and situations, based on the observation of a newsstand at the border between Italy and Switzerland. Persisting in a digital era, Piffaretti has examined its archival features, for the way it provides access to the world through its papers and magazines.
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Spatialising the Time-Image : Viewing Renoir through Deleuze and Guattari
Jean Renoir’s vision of space has continued to sustain theorization since André Bazin’s major critical reappraisal of the quintessential French auteur in Cahiers du…
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Worlds Under Watch: The Moving Surveillance-Image and Its Institutions
Cedric Bobro traces the linguistics roots of surveillance and the fantasy of the omnipotent view through ghosts and AI to the modern surveillance apparatus.
Getting Lost in “Wondaland”: Political Worldbuilding and Timeless Affects in Janelle Monáe’s Metropolis
Mathilde Fauteux explores the political spaces of Janelle Monáe’s work, concentrating on both the diegetic spaces that make up her recent projects and the transmedia spaces those projects occupy and create.
Introduction: SCMS-U & Student Voices
In her introduction to this installment of Student Voices, Amy Corbin contextualizes the essays in the work of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’s undergraduate conference, which she co-organized. She also provides a platform for Jeffery Lin, an invited contributor, to discuss the ongoing protests on Hong Kong and his reasons for withdrawing his essay.
Directing the Consumer’s Attention through Public Screens: A Critical View
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
Integrated Spectacle Perpetuation Within Metro China
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
Disenchantment of the Spectacle: What Happens When the Lights are Turned Off
In this essay, Madeline Dippel, a student at Indiana University, considers how public screens shape architecture and engagement, particularly when the spectacular lights of the screens are “turned off” creating both sensibilities of enchantment and disenchantment.
Prior Issue
An Update on Grenfell
In this conclusion to her two-part look at the Grenfell crisis, Anna Viola Sborgi examines the aftermath of a crisis and the ways in which activists have and have not been successful in ensuring continued focus on the underlying issues.
Of Drones and Angels: GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance
Alessio Kolioulis examines the work of GAIKA – music, videos, and films – and explores the critiques of surveillance and state control running throughout.
The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media
In the first of a two-part look at the Grenfell Tower crisis, Anna Sborgi examines the complicated relationship between the media and social housing in contemporary London.