The Mediapolis Q&A: Stanley Corkin’s <em>Boston Mass-Mediated</em>

Corkin, Stanley and Bruce Isaacs

Stanley Corkin

Stanley Corkin is Charles Phelps Taft Professor and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media, Emeritus, at University of Cincinnati. His latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2024. You can hear him talk about the book here.

His other books include Connecting The Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore; Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s; and Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and US History. His peer-reviewed articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in several journals, including Jump Cut, the Journal of Urban History, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Prospects: An American Studies Annual, Journal of American History, Cinema Journal, College English, College Literature, and Cineaste.

no. 1, Q & A, vol. 10April 9, 2025<April 9, 2025

The Mediapolis Q&A: Stanley Corkin’s Boston Mass-Mediated

Stanley Corkin and Bruce Isaacs

Stanley Corkin discusses his latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, with Bruce Isaacs.

From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2February 9, 2017<February 9, 2017

Trump and the Dialectic of Enlightenment

Stanley Corkin

Stan Corkin discusses Trump's affinity with televisuality and the dangers of the reality effect.

From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2January 25, 2017<January 25, 2017

Trump, The Wire’s Serial Killer, and the State of the News

Stanley Corkin

Stan Corkin claims the neoliberalization of journalism as a key cause in the rise of Trump, and looks to the fifth season of The Wire as anticipating this phenomenon.