Erica Stein

Erica Stein

Erica Stein is assistant professor of film at Vassar College and can be reached at estein@vassar.edu. Her work explores the relationship between space and narrative in both popular and experimental cinema and has been published in Journal of Film and Video and Camera Obscura. She was co-chair of the Urbanism, Architecture, and Geography (previously Urban Studies) Scholarly Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and is co-founder of Mediapolis. She is currently writing a book about postwar New York city symphonies as productions of utopian space.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2

First We Take Manhattan: Introducing Marvel Roundtable Part 2

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.
no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2

Marvel, the Urban, and Authenticity: An Introduction

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.