Lawrence Webb

Lawrence Webb is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City (Amsterdam University Press, 2014). He is co-editor of Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (Wallflower Press, 2016), Hollywood On Location: An Industry History (Rutgers University Press, 2019), and The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture (Bloomsbury, 2019).

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3August 20, 2018<October 1, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part Two)

Lawrence Webb

In part two of the Mediapolis Q+A, Lawrence Webb continues his conversation with Tim Lawrence about the history of dance music culture in New York City.

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3August 20, 2018<August 24, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part One)

Lawrence Webb

Tim Lawrence is author of three groundbreaking books on the history of dance music culture in New York City. He sits down with Lawrence Webb to discuss the importance of space and place to writing music history, the extraordinary cultural fertility of New York, and the convergences between disco, punk, and hip-hop in the early 1980s.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 28, 2018<February 28, 2018

Living With the Media Industry City

Lawrence Webb

In this introduction to the second round, Lawrence Webb asks the contributors to consider media industries and the cities they generate from the perspective of those cities' citizens and users

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 16, 2018<February 20, 2018

Media Industries and City Branding: A Roundtable

Lawrence Webb

In the first-round introduction to our new Roundtable, Lawrence Webb uses the example of Amazon HQ2 to ask how urban corporate and residential relocation campaigns illuminate issues of citizenship and city branding, and poses questions to our participants

no. 4, Q & A, vol. 1August 23, 2016<January 17, 2017

Investigating Global Cinematic Cities

Lawrence Webb and Johan Andersson

In this introduction to our Q&A on the edited volume Global Cinematic Cities, editors Lawrence Webb and Johan Andersson talk about their project and the questions they asked their contributors in light of the instability surrounding both global cities and cinematic cities.