Noelle Griffis

Noelle Griffis

Noelle Griffis is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Marymount Manhattan College. Her research on location production, film policy, urban development, and media activism has been published in JCMS, Black Camera, and several edited volumes, including The Routledge Companion to Media and the City. Noelle co-chairs the SCMS Urbanism, Geography, and Architecture SIG.

no. 2, On Teaching, Student Voices, vol. 6

Cinetourism and Urban Development: Student Voices Dossier

Noelle Griffis introduces this issue of Student Voices with a discussion of her Fall 2020 course, Cinema and the City, providing context and an overview of her students' work, as well as links to her course syllabus and assignment. Griffis's course emphasizes the role that urban development has played in racial and economic inequality in the city and the ways these issues have been depicted—or neglected—on screen.
no. 2, Polished Panels, Revise and Extend, vol. 1

Methodologies of Race and Space

Mediated cityscapes often reinforce the stigma associated with devalued areas and the underprivileged, yet can also undermine dominant perceptions and counter misrepresentations of place. In this Polished Panel, the participants map that tension that emerges between real and represented places, using a spatial approach to race to trace formal and industrial practices that create meaningful linkages among spaces, places, and bodies.