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Mark Shiel considers some historical precedents for the current moment.
Stan Corkin discusses Trump’s affinity with televisuality and the dangers of the reality effect.
Caitlin Bruce identifies the polyrhythmic nature of the city as a potent model for resistance to the Trump administration’s tactics, and to anti-urban representations of the city as population instead of populace.
Sabine Haenni fills in the “points of warmth” on her migration map with examples of local resistance and local cinemas.
Johan Andersson considers the relationship between Trump’s rhetoric and the anti-urban themes of the contemporary war film.
In this final response, James Gilmore suggests that the vastness of the superhero genre defies generalizations and instead requires scholars to take situated “entry points” to the genre.
Managing Editors Erica Stein and Brendan Kredell kick off the second phase of From the Editors’ Desk by asking what role media and the city can play in an effective response to the rapid pace of change.
Lorrie Palmer follows Agent Carter off the grid in her discussion of the second season’s unruly spaces and unruly women.
Dennis Hanlon and Amy Tibbitts discuss how they managed issues connected to team teaching, interdisciplinary topics, and diversely prepared student populations in their class on Spanish and Argentine cinemas of the economic crisis.
Laura Felschow analyzes Marvel’s expansion of authenticity to the international in world building and marketing.
Mark Shiel calls for urban cinema and media studies to reorient its methodologies in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.
In the first response, Matt Yockey argues Marvel links the superhero to the urban, and to New York City in particular, through affect-inducing strategies that belie both Marvel’s, and the city’s, “ever upward” aspirations.
In this roundtable redirect, Erica Stein questions what it means for Marvel to image its authenticity in and through New York City. She asks us to consider how Marvel’s dispersed and globalized industrial spatiality complicates and interacts with its proclivity for filming (and filming in) New York.
Stan Corkin claims the neoliberalization of journalism as a key cause in the rise of Trump, and looks to the fifth season of The Wire as anticipating this phenomenon.
Caitlin Bruce argues that the city could not figure in public imaginaries as a space for authentic populism in the 2016 U.S. election in part because of its long-standing representation as a contagion in cinema.
Netflix’s Marvel line-up of shows are transmediated texts that encourage us to ponder whose bodies matter, and how they matter, in the contemporary city.
Johan Andersson explores the relationship between political crisis and class consciousness in cinema past and present.
Sabine Haenni explores the limits of local warmth, sanctuary cities, and the mediation of experiences of immigration and migration in fiction films.
Media and the urban were two key strands in discussions of the US presidential election and Brexit. The Managing Editors re-connect them in this introduction to our From the Editors’ Desk feature.
Lorrie Palmer discusses the single period-set Marvel television offering, Agent Carter, and its use of locations like the Automat to evoke a unified city
When Marvel’s iconic Power Man became Netflix’s Luke Cage, the character’s bullet-proof black body retained his relevance, and the urban space he occupied became even more important.
Marvel Comics’ loyalty to New York City both in its business practices and its produced content have lent both the company and their product a certain degree of marketable perceived authenticity.
Since the release of its earliest comics, Marvel Inc. has foregrounded its use of real urban settings to differentiate itself from competitors and market its products in terms of authenticity. This Roundtable explores some of the strategies and consequences of this connection.
Christopher Holliday reports on the recent Cities in Crisis symposium held at King’s College London.