a journal of cities and culture
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Christian Olesen discusses with Scott Rodgers the kinds of environments and atmospheres made possible in and through film sound, and the broader practices, politics, and ethics of sonic appropriation.
Charlotte Brunsdon reflects on recurring themes in the Television Cities dossier and discusses the enticements and challenges of studying television and cities together.
Kat Pearson considers the role of television in Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture, from BBC programming to local events that enabled residents to engage with the city’s history through the TV archives.
Can televisual nostalgia for midcentury Manhattan have feminist potential? Helen Morgan Parmett explores Greenwich Village and gender politics in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Myles McNutt looks at how the issue of safety is redrawing the map of US television production, from Covid-19 to new forms of discriminative legislation on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.
How is historic Istanbul recreated for the screen? Drawing on interviews with local media professionals, Ipek Celik Rappas considers the challenges of filming heritage television series in a rapidly changing city.
Kim Wilkins examines spectacular yet familiar scenes of Berlin nightclubs in serial television, arguing that they draw on the city’s history of hedonism to promote its present-day image as a nightlife capital.
Johan Andersson introduces the dossier on the war in Ukraine.
Rebecca Adelman argues that news reports about Ukrainian women making camouflage tend to trivialize their contribution
Catriona Kelly returns to Sergei Parajanov’s Kyiv Frescoes (1966) to find that the film, intended to commemorate ‘the Great Patriotic War’, speaks to the current tragic moment
Contrasting sanitized representations of the war on buildings in central Moscow with accounts from Ukrainian media, James Gregg looks at the Putin regime’s attempts to control the narrative
Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent
Examining the impact of his fictional celebrity persona on recent global events, Kelly McGee explores how Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency brings new considerations to the forefront of celebrity and media studies.
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.
