From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2February 2, 2017<February 2, 2017 Hollywood and the Muslim Ban: The Contemporary War Film as Urban Cinema by Johan Andersson Johan Andersson considers the relationship between Trump's rhetoric and the anti-urban themes of the contemporary war film.
From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2January 27, 2017<February 2, 2017 Do Not Adjust Your Set! Recalibrating Urban Cinema and Media Studies Under Donald Trump by Mark Shiel Mark Shiel calls for urban cinema and media studies to reorient its methodologies in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2January 24, 2017<January 25, 2017 No Cities to Love: The Urban as Population, not People by Caitlin Bruce Caitlin Bruce argues that the city could not figure in public imaginaries as a space for authentic populism in the 2016 U.S. election in part because of its long-standing representation as a contagion in cinema.