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Erica Stein

Erica Stein

Erica Stein is Chair and Associate Professor of Film at Vassar College. Her research focuses on the spatial politics of alternative cinemas. She is the author of Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York (SUNY Press 2021) and co-editor of Companion to Media and the City (Routledge, 2022). In 2015, she co-founded Mediapolis with Brendan Kredell. She is currently working on a book about real estate and crime in film, video, and television.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 11June 15, 2026<June 15, 2026

Publication as Conversation

Erica Stein
Erica Stein traces out how multiple conceptions of scholarly “conversation” shaped the founding of Mediapolis and remain central to the journal’s identity.
Dossiers, Mediapolis Now, no. 1, vol. 11June 15, 2026<June 18, 2026

Voices Episode 10: Small-Gauge Scholarship at Ten, with Erica Stein, Elizabeth Patton and Adam Ochonicky

Erica Stein, Elizabeth Patton, Adam Ochonicky and Scott Rodgers
This episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series is a special one, marking the 10th Anniversary of Mediapolis, where we speak with Erica Stein, Elizabeth Patton and Adam Ochonicky.
no. 3, Q & A, vol. 10November 10, 2025<November 14, 2025

The Mediapolis Q&A: Ipek Çelik Rappas’s Filming in European Cities

Erica Stein and Ipek A. Celik Rappas
Erica Stein speaks to İpek Çelik Rappas about her book Filming in European Cities.
no. 2, On Teaching, Student Voices, vol. 8June 12, 2023<June 13, 2023

Teaching Film Urbanism

Erica Stein
Erica Stein discusses the syllabus for her course "Cinemas and Urbanisms" and introduces the essays in the Student Voices section.
no. 1, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7April 1, 2022<November 22, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically

Paula J. Massood and Erica Stein
Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.
no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 26, 2017<February 4, 2017

First We Take Manhattan: Introducing Marvel Roundtable Part 2

Erica Stein
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. 2January 17, 2017<January 17, 2017

Marvel, the Urban, and Authenticity: An Introduction

Erica Stein
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.
no. 3, Roundtables, vol. 1July 14, 2016<January 17, 2017

Reflections on the Small-Gauge Roundtable

The Editors, Brendan Kredell and Erica Stein
Wrapping up our roundtable discussion on small-gauge scholarship, Mediapolis editors Brendan Kredell and Erica Stein reflect on lessons learned and paths forward.
no. 3, Roundtables, vol. 1June 24, 2016<January 17, 2017

Threading the Labyrinth: Small-Gauge Approaches to the Urban

Erica Stein
All our contributors have conceptualized small-gauge scholarship and practice as a challenge to the contemporary scholarly apparatus and as an extension of the self. Or, more accurately, as a challenge to the norms of the academy because it is an extension of the self.

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  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Editors
    • 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
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    • Volume 6 – 2021
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    • Volume 7 – 2022
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    • Volume 8 – 2023
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    • Volume 9 – 2024
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    • Volume 10 – 2025
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  • Resources
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      • 2016 Workshop Proposal
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    • Course Syllabi
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