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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).

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

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

By Lawrence Webb
[Ed. note: In part two of this Mediapolis Q&A, Tim Lawrence discusses the rapid changes to New York’s music scene in the neoliberal 1980s and the importance of reclaiming the legacy of disco as radical counterculture. For part one, … Read More
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no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3August 20, 2018

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

By Lawrence Webb
[Ed. note: In this two-part Mediapolis Q&A, Lawrence Webb talks to Tim Lawrence about his research into the cultural history of New York City following the recent international conference on disco at the University of Sussex. To read part … Read More
no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 28, 2018

Living With the Media Industry City

By Lawrence Webb
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Relocation, Media Industries, and City Branding.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In the second round, I’d …

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

Media Industries and City Branding: A Roundtable

By Lawrence Webb
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Relocation and City Branding.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

When Amazon recently announced its intention to …

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no. 4, Q & A, vol. 1August 23, 2016

Investigating Global Cinematic Cities

By Lawrence Webb
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Q&A session on a new edited volume, Global Cinematic Cities. For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

This Q …

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