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The Empty Centre: The Legacy of Thomas Elsaesser

The Empty Centre: The Legacy of Thomas Elsaesser

Introduction: The Porous City

Introduction: The Porous City

Postscriptum: Remembering Thomas Elsaesser

Postscriptum: Remembering Thomas Elsaesser

Porous Gateways: London Docklands

Porous Gateways: London Docklands

In This Issue

From Water to Home: Permeability as Social Inclusion (and Exclusion) in Contemporary London

by Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi considers how recent documentary films reconfigure porosity as permeability, and reflects on questions of social inclusion in the city under lockdown.

No Exit, or Duration in Slow Cinema: Aesthetics of Femininity, Porosity, Security

by Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf

Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

by Annie Dell'Aria

Activist Media and Distributional Aesthetics in the City

by Carrie Rentschler

Urban Pores as Media: Questions of Aesthetics and Access

by Sabine Haenni
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Previous Issue

The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories

by Ranjani Mazumdar

In this third and final part of our Slums series, Ranjani Mazumdar discusses two recent films that have created “embodied cartographies” of Mumbai’s Dharavi.

MEDIAPOLIS LIVE: London – Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies Symposium

by Brendan Kredell

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

by Elmo Gonzaga

The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema

by Igor Krstić

Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale

by Malini Guha
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  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Editors
      • Lawrence Webb
      • Elizabeth Patton
      • Noelle Griffis
      • Scott Rodgers
    • Editorial Board
    • Advisory Board
    • Our Partners
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
    • Volume 1 – 2015/2016
      • № 1 – December 2015
      • № 2 – March 2016
      • № 3 – June 2016
      • № 4 – August 2016
      • № 5 – November 2016
    • Volume 2 – 2017
      • № 1 – January/February 2017
      • № 2 – June 2017
      • № 3 – September 2017
      • № 4 – October/November 2017
      • № 5 – December 2017
    • Volume 3 – 2018
      • № 1 – January/February 2018
      • № 2 – June 2018
      • № 3 – August/September 2018
      • № 4 – October/November 2018
    • Volume 4 – 2019
      • № 1 – January/February 2019
      • № 2 – June 2019
      • № 3 – October/November 2019
    • Volume 5 – 2020
      • Vol. 5 № 1
      • Vol. 5 № 2
      • Vol. 5 № 3
      • Vol. 5 № 4
    • Volume 6 – 2021
      • Vol. 6 № 1
      • Vol. 6 № 2
      • Vol. 6 № 3
      • Vol. 6 № 4
    • Volume 7 – 2022
      • Vol. 7 № 1
      • Vol. 7, № 2
      • Vol. 7, № 3
  • Resources
    • SIG Institutional History
      • Workshops
      • 2016 Workshop Proposal
      • Sponsored Events
    • Conference Presentations
      • 2008 – Philadelphia
      • 2009 – Tokyo
    • Course Syllabi
  • Sections
    • Dossiers
    • Roundtables
    • Q & A
    • Deep Dives
    • From the Archive
    • Opening the Canon
    • Student Voices
    • Mediapolis on Coronavirus
    • Podcast: Mediapolis Now
  • Contribute
    • Submission guidelines
    • Call for Contributions