Constructing Precarity: Media and Social Housing in the French Banlieue

Isabelle McNeill

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 6November 18, 2021<November 18, 2021

Constructing Precarity: Media and Social Housing in the French Banlieue

by Isabelle McNeill

Can cinema generate alternative visions of precarious life in the banlieue? Isabelle McNeill investigates scenes of domestic interiors that challenge the dominant media imagery of French social housing and its high rise architecture.

no. 4, Q & A, vol. 6September 16, 2021<September 16, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity

by Mara Ferreri

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris discuss their books The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London and Rebranding Precarity: Pop-Up Culture as the Seductive New Normal.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 15, 2019<October 17, 2019

The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema

by Igor Krstić

How have slums been represented onscreen? In the first installment of a three-part series, Igor Krstić considers the history of the cinematic representation of slums and examines the capacity of visual media to portray the complex relationships between capitalism and urban development.