City of New York, No Parking Anytime: The City and the Car in Postwar City Symphony Films

Rankin, Cortland

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 8September 26, 2023<September 29, 2023

City of New York, No Parking Anytime: The City and the Car in Postwar City Symphony Films

Cortland Rankin

Exploring three experimental city symphony films made between 1958 and 1972, Cortland Rankin looks at the fraught and shifting relationship between New York City and the car.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7November 14, 2022<November 14, 2022

The Mediapolis Q&A: Cortland Rankin’s Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Robert Joseph and Cortland Rankin

Cortland Rankin discusses his new book, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York, with Robert Joseph.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 24, 2022<June 24, 2022

“Fix it! And Accessorize it!”: Gender, Nostalgia, and the City in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Helen Morgan Parmett

Can televisual nostalgia for midcentury Manhattan have feminist potential? Helen Morgan Parmett explores Greenwich Village and gender politics in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

no. 1, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7April 1, 2022<November 22, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically

Paula J. Massood and Erica Stein

Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.

no. 4, Reviewed, vol. 6September 21, 2021<September 21, 2021

Getting to the Heights: The Latinx Neighborhood at Work and Play in Jon M. Chu’s and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New Musical

Catherine Benamou

Catherine Benamou discusses the urban musical In the Heights and unpacks its complex relationship with the Latinx neighborhood of Washington Heights.

no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 4June 22, 2019<June 22, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes

Noelle Griffis

Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3August 20, 2018<October 1, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part Two)

Lawrence Webb

In part two of the Mediapolis Q+A, Lawrence Webb continues his conversation with Tim Lawrence about the history of dance music culture in New York City.

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 3August 20, 2018<August 24, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part One)

Lawrence Webb

Tim Lawrence is author of three groundbreaking books on the history of dance music culture in New York City. He sits down with Lawrence Webb to discuss the importance of space and place to writing music history, the extraordinary cultural fertility of New York, and the convergences between disco, punk, and hip-hop in the early 1980s.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 27, 2017<February 4, 2017

Excelsior: Reaching Toward Utopia in Marvel’s New York

Matt Yockey

In the first response, Matt Yockey argues Marvel links the superhero to the urban, and to New York City in particular, through affect-inducing strategies that belie both Marvel's, and the city's, "ever upward" aspirations.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 20, 2017<January 22, 2017

Marvel Noir: Agent Carter, the Automat, and Urban Wholeness

Lorrie Palmer

Lorrie Palmer discusses the single period-set Marvel television offering, Agent Carter, and its use of locations like the Automat to evoke a unified city

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 17, 2017<January 19, 2017

Branding New York: Marvel Comics and Industry Tradition

Laura Felschow

Marvel Comics’ loyalty to New York City both in its business practices and its produced content have lent both the company and their product a certain degree of marketable perceived authenticity.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 17, 2017<January 17, 2017

Marvel, the Urban, and Authenticity: An Introduction

Erica Stein

Since the release of its earliest comics, Marvel Inc. has foregrounded its use of real urban settings to differentiate itself from competitors and market its products in terms of authenticity. This Roundtable explores some of the strategies and consequences of this connection.