Familiar Spectacles: Nightclub Space in TV Berlin

Wilkins, Kim

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 21, 2022<June 21, 2022

Familiar Spectacles: Nightclub Space in TV Berlin

Kim Wilkins

Kim Wilkins examines spectacular yet familiar scenes of Berlin nightclubs in serial television, arguing that they draw on the city's history of hedonism to promote its present-day image as a nightlife capital.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 19, 2018<October 20, 2018

Notebook on Cities and Clothes: Wim Wenders Takes to the (Inner Ring) Road

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser reconsiders some of Wim Wenders films through the lens of the city and the essay, discovering new dialogic and self-reflexive qualities within them.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 17, 2018<October 17, 2018

The Fiction of Beirut: Reframing Labour Migration in Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste of Cement

Brenda Hollweg

Brenda Hollweg shows how Taste of Cement, part of the recent global growth of the essay film, explores Beirut through the perspective of its migrant workforce, unearthing the city's history and role in regional conflicts, as well as flows of labor.