a journal of cities and culture
How have Hollywood’s production networks responded to disruptions in global supply chains? Kate Fortmueller examines the logistics of making film and television during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Merve Ünsal explores the neighborhood of Kagithane (House of Paper) in Istanbul, Turkey, which was formerly a hub of paper production. Ünsal examines the paper supply crisis in Turkey through the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, which is home to the Ottoman state archives.
In the first installment of a dossier on scarcity and the supply chain crisis, Tyler Klatt explores how the media industries have been affected by the global computer chip shortage related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.
Challenging views of social housing as dysfunctional and dystopian, Caterina Sartori examines films that reimagine everyday social space through practices of care, repair and maintenance.
Adam Ochonicky explores the relationship between mobility and precarity in the Midwestern spaces of It Follows.
Drawing on the ideas of Michel De Certeau, Isabelle McNeill discusses filmmaking practices in the banlieue as part of a wider struggle for habitability.
Arguing that mobility has to be understood intersectionally, Pamela Robertson Wojcik shows how Hollywood genres about tramps, hitchhikers, and “street people” overwhelmingly privilege white characters even as film and television have started to pay more attention to female homelessness.
Anna Viola Sborgi’s introduction to the second round explores intersectionality and social mobility as it relates to home.
Tracing the history of uninhabitable homes in the horror genre, Adam Ochonicky connects RoboCop’s narrative of precarious housing to media images of the Midwest as a blank or vacant space.
Merrill Schleier discusses her latest book, Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press, 2021), with three of the book’s contributing authors, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos, and Amy Corbin.
Can cinema generate alternative visions of precarious life in the banlieue? Isabelle McNeill investigates scenes of domestic interiors that challenge the dominant media imagery of French social housing and its high rise architecture.
