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

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

By 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 Nathan Holmes, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College – SUNY. His book, Welcome …

no. 5, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 2December 29, 2017

The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect

By 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. Her new book, Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American …

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 2September 15, 2017

The Truth is Outsourcing: Notes on the Post-Industrial Spaces of The X-Files

By Kirk Boyle

Any mass media phenomenon as big as The X-Files, the hit television series that initially aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002, will serve as a cultural Rorschach Test. How critics read X-Files will tell us as much about …

Institutional Memory, no. 2, vol. 2June 3, 2017

Animating Infrastructures

By Joseph DeLeon

[Ed. note: this post is part of a series on urban-centered research presented at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies..]

All papers on the “Animating Infrastructures” panel discussed the indeterminacy of infrastructural arrangements …

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 28, 2016

Decentring the Urban

By André Jansson

[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

I …