Brendan Kredell

Brendan Kredell

Brendan Kredell is Professor of Film at Oakland University, USA. His research examines the relationship between cities and media, with particular focus on audiences and patterns of media consumption, cultural data and urban development, and film festivals. He is the co‑editor of two books: Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice (2016), with Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist, and The Routledge Companion to Media and the City (2022), with Erica Stein and Germaine Halegoua. He was a founding co‑editor of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, and his research has been supported by a number of grants, including a Fulbright fellowship.

Mediapolis Now, no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3

Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 2)

Our Mediapolis Live series continues with part two of an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." Here, she and Mediapolis co-editor Brendan Kredell discuss the legacies of Henry Ford and Coleman Young in contemporary Detroit, and the critique of "creative class" urban planning.
Mediapolis Now, no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3

Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 1)

Our Mediapolis Live series continues with an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." In the first of a two-part series, co-editor Brendan Kredell discusses with Apel her notion of the "deindustrial sublime" and the nomenclature of ruin photography.
no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 1

Policing and the Media: An Introduction

Among the thirty seven people shot by police in 2014, it is Laquan McDonald’s death that has catalyzed public reaction; thanks to the existence of video documentation, we can see what happened with our own eyes. This seemingly simple observation belies a much more complex set of issues regarding the relationship between policing and media in the contemporary moment. With this roundtable, we seek to investigate those in some greater detail.