urban space

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 5October 26, 2020<November 4, 2020

Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film

by Yoon Jeong Oh

Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun's critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 5October 26, 2020<October 26, 2020

Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City

by Rahul Mukherjee

Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 20, 2020<August 27, 2020

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

by Shanti Sumartojo et al

A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.

no. 2, On Teaching, Student Voices, vol. 5July 2, 2020<July 6, 2020

Culture in the Mediapolis

by Helen Morgan-Parmett

Helen Morgan Parmett and Conn Holohan introduce this installment of Student Voices. First, Helen Morgan Parmett discusses the themes of her seminar course, "Culture in the Mediapolis," from which student essays in the section are drawn. Morgan Parmett emphasizes the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the course and her students. Holohan then provides an introduction to the short films students' submitted as part of the section's special feature on student responses to the pandemic.

no. 2, Q & A, vol. 5June 12, 2020<September 17, 2020

The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce’s Painting Publics

by Claire Sisco King

Claire King interviews Caitlin Bruce on her new book, Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 16, 2020<March 16, 2020

Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

by Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020<February 27, 2020

Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City

by Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering

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

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

by 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. 5, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 2December 29, 2017<January 3, 2018

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 about her new book on the figure of the child in American urban film and fiction.

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 2September 15, 2017<September 17, 2017

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

by Kirk Boyle

Kirk Boyle looks anew at The X-Files, finding in Mulder and Scully evidence of the coming of the post-industrial society.

Institutional Memory, no. 2, vol. 2June 3, 2017<June 6, 2017

Animating Infrastructures

by Joseph DeLeon

Joseph DeLeon offers this report on the "Animating Infrastructures" panel at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 28, 2016<January 17, 2017

Decentring the Urban

by André Jansson

In this response, Andre Jansson argues that we must look beyond the confines of urban centres and incorporate the voices and lived experiences of those who do not fit our urban-centric cultures of connectivity.