Los Angeles

From the Archive, no. 3, vol. 6July 6, 2021<July 7, 2021

The Ed Ruscha Streets of Los Angeles Project

by Mark Shiel

A collaborative team at the Getty Research Institute has been working to digitize and analyze the influential Los Angeles street photography of Ed Ruscha. Mark Shiel provides an overview of the project and discusses parallels between Ruscha’s photographs and LA cinema in the 1960s.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<September 1, 2021

Gentrification and the White Spatial Imaginary: Notes from Little Tokyo in Lockdown

by Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

COVID-19 has created new challenges for community activism in Los Angeles. Jonathan Jae-an Crisman discusses gains and setbacks for Little Tokyo's anti-gentrification arts activists during the pandemic.

no. 2, On Teaching, Student Voices, vol. 6April 22, 2021<April 26, 2021

Cinetourism and Urban Development: Student Voices Dossier

by Noelle Griffis

Noelle Griffis introduces this issue of Student Voices with a discussion of her Fall 2020 course, Cinema and the City, providing context and an overview of her students' work, as well as links to her course syllabus and assignment. Griffis's course emphasizes the role that urban development has played in racial and economic inequality in the city and the ways these issues have been depicted—or neglected—on screen.

no. 1, Q & A, vol. 4February 28, 2019<February 28, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary

by Alexander Davis

Alexander Davis interviews Joshua Glick about his new book, which rethinks Los Angeles as a center of documentary production

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 19, 2018<February 19, 2018

Relocating Mobile Production: Los Angeles & TV’s Spatial Capital Showdown

by Myles McNutt

Myles McNutt discusses how Los Angeles has been forced to rethink its approach to competing in a new television landscape characterized by mobile production

From the Archive, no. 5, vol. 2December 17, 2017<January 9, 2018

Moving Image Archives as Urban Palimpsest

by Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen

In this installment of our From the Archives section, Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen explores the history of the Echo Park Film Center and its relationship to the city of Los Angeles, suggesting that we can observe the process of urban change at work through the holdings of film archives.

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 2October 30, 2017<October 30, 2017

Edward Soja

by Mark Shiel

In this first installment of "Opening the Canon," Mark Shiel reflects on Edward Soja's influence on media studies, urban studies, and their intersections.