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no. 5, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 1December 6, 2016

Martha Shearer on New York City and the Hollywood Musical

By Brendan Kredell

This conversation marks the first in what will be a regular series of interviews with authors of new books on cities and urban culture. We begin by sitting down – virtually – with Martha Shearer, whose new book New York …

no. 1, Revise and Extend, vol. 1December 5, 2015

The Moving Image of Coney Island

By Joshua Glick

For the past four years I have had the pleasure of making motion pictures a major part of the traveling exhibition, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008. The exhibition explores how painters, photographers, filmmakers, writers, and graphic …