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

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

By Noelle Griffis

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 Nathan Holmes, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College – SUNY. His book, Welcome …

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

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

By Noelle Griffis

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 (Routledge, 2017) with Cecilia Tirtaine.

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no. 5, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 2December 29, 2017

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

By Noelle Griffis

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. Her new book, Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American …

no. 2, Polished Panels, Revise and Extend, vol. 1March 7, 2016

Methodologies of Race and Space

By Noelle Griffis

The mediation of place often parallels urban (and suburban) economic developments including gentrification, ghettoization, and white flight, reinforcing the stigma associated with devalued areas and the underprivileged, and the desire for spaces associated with affluence and whiteness. At the same …