Noelle Griffis

Noelle Griffis is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Griffis received her PhD from Indiana University in 2018. Her dissertation, "Filmmaking to Save a City in Crisis: New York on Location, 1966-1973," examines filmmaking culture during Mayor John V. Lindsay's administration and the creation of New York's first policy to encourage feature production on location. Noelle has published in Black Camera and her work appears in the edited volumes Hollywood on Location (Rutgers UP) and Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (forthcoming 2019, Duke UP). She is also the Reviews Editor for Mediapolis.

no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 4June 22, 2019<June 22, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes

Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.

no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 3June 9, 2018<June 10, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Nolwenn Mingant on Reconceptualising Film Policies

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and global cities, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Nolwenn Mingant, who co-authored and edited Reconceptualising Film Policies (Rutgers University Press, 2017) with Cecilia Tirtaine.

no. 5, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 2December 29, 2017<January 3, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her new book on the figure of the child in American urban film and fiction.

no. 2, Polished Panels, Revise and Extend, vol. 1March 7, 2016<January 17, 2017

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.