Afterword: The Time of the Television City has Come
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Charlotte Brunsdon reflects on recurring themes in the Television Cities dossier and discusses the enticements and challenges of studying television and cities together.
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“A change from murder and mayhem”: UK City of Culture on Television
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Kat Pearson considers the role of television in Coventry's year as UK City of Culture, from BBC programming to local events that enabled residents to engage with the city's history through the TV archives.
“Fix it! And Accessorize it!”: Gender, Nostalgia, and the City in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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Can televisual nostalgia for midcentury Manhattan have feminist potential? Helen Morgan Parmett explores Greenwich Village and gender politics in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Where is it Safe to Make Television? COVID, “Don’t Say Gay,” and the Instability of Spatial Capital
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Myles McNutt looks at how the issue of safety is redrawing the map of US television production, from Covid-19 to new forms of discriminative legislation on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.
TV Cities, Istanbul: The Labor of Reconstructing History in Turkish TV Series
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How is historic Istanbul recreated for the screen? Drawing on interviews with local media professionals, Ipek Celik Rappas considers the challenges of filming heritage television series in a rapidly changing city.
Familiar Spectacles: Nightclub Space in TV Berlin
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Kim Wilkins examines spectacular yet familiar scenes of Berlin nightclubs in serial television, arguing that they draw on the city's history of hedonism to promote its present-day image as a nightlife capital.
The Millenial Flaneuse in Broad City
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Sasha Nater explores the television series Broad City to consider the extent to which the show's main characters might be considered modern-day flaneuses. The show demonstrates the unique struggles millennial women face as they navigate the city, while also offering up potential for women to make their own place in the city by navigating and narrating their everyday experiences amidst the urban environment.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Elizabeth Patton’s Easy Living
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Television and media scholar Elana Levine interviews Elizabeth Patton on her recent book Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office.
Relocating Mobile Production: Los Angeles & TV’s Spatial Capital Showdown
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Myles McNutt discusses how Los Angeles has been forced to rethink its approach to competing in a new television landscape characterized by mobile production
There Goes the Neighborhood: CenturyLink Field and the Transformation of Seattle’s SoDo Neighborhood
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In the latest installment in our Deep Dives series, Helen Morgan Parmett and Kate Ranachan explore the sports-centered redevelopment and rebranding of Seattle's SoDo neighborhood.