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.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Race and the Suburbs
Merrill Schleier, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos and Amy Corbin
Merrill Schleier discusses her latest book, Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press, 2021), with three of the book's contributing authors, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos, and Amy Corbin.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Priya Jaikumar on Where Histories Reside
Sushmita Banerji
In this issue's Mediapolis Q&A, film scholar Sushmita Banerji interviews Priya Jaikumar on her most recent book Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies
Angelo Restivo
In this installment of the Mediapolis Q&A, Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz about his new book Cinematic Cryptonomies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film.
Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 2)
Brendan Kredell
Our Mediapolis Live series continues with part two of an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." Here, she and Mediapolis co-editor Brendan Kredell discuss the legacies of Henry Ford and Coleman Young in contemporary Detroit, and the critique of "creative class" urban planning.
Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 1)
Brendan Kredell
Our Mediapolis Live series continues with an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." In the first of a two-part series, co-editor Brendan Kredell discusses with Apel her notion of the "deindustrial sublime" and the nomenclature of ruin photography.
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.
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.
Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part Two: Miranda Pennell)
Stephen Connolly & Matthew Gibson & Patrick Brian SmithIn the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her …
Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part One: Alberto Toscano)
Stephen Connolly & Matthew Gibson & Patrick Brian Smith
The organizers of Kent's recent Visualising Spatial Injustice conference reflect on it and interview one of their keynote speakers, Alberto Toscano.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Nolwenn Mingant on Reconceptualising Film Policies
Noelle Griffis
In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and global cities, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Nolwenn Mingant, who co-authored and edited Reconceptualising Film Policies (Rutgers University Press, 2017) with Cecilia Tirtaine.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect
Noelle Griffis
In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her new book on the figure of the child in American urban film and fiction.