TV Cities, Istanbul: The Labor of Reconstructing History in Turkish TV Series

Rappas, Ipek. A Celik

June 22, 2022<June 22, 2022

TV Cities, Istanbul: The Labor of Reconstructing History in Turkish TV Series

by Ipek A. Celik Rappas

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.

June 21, 2022<June 21, 2022

Familiar Spectacles: Nightclub Space in TV Berlin

by Kim Wilkins

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.

June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Introduction: Sunflowers and Social Media

by Johan Andersson

Johan Andersson introduces the dossier on the war in Ukraine.

June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Camouflaging Ukrainian Women

by Rebecca Adelman

Rebecca Adelman argues that news reports about Ukrainian women making camouflage tend to trivialize their contribution

June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Matter Out of Place: Rewatching Parajanov in 2022

by Catriona Kelly

Catriona Kelly returns to Sergei Parajanov’s Kyiv Frescoes (1966) to find that the film, intended to commemorate ‘the Great Patriotic War’, speaks to the current tragic moment

June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Creating and Enforcing Moscow’s Aesthetic of War

by James Gregg

Contrasting sanitized representations of the war on buildings in central Moscow with accounts from Ukrainian media, James Gregg looks at the Putin regime’s attempts to control the narrative

June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Online Patriots and Traitors: The War, Authoritarianism, and State-Sponsored Digital Vigilantism in Russia

by Maxim Alyukov

Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent

June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Celebrity Apparatus

by Kelly McGee

Examining the impact of his fictional celebrity persona on recent global events, Kelly McGee explores how Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency brings new considerations to the forefront of celebrity and media studies.

May 4, 2022<May 4, 2022

Labor Immobility in Hollywood’s (Pandemic) Supply Chain Media

by Kate Fortmueller

How have Hollywood’s production networks responded to disruptions in global supply chains? Kate Fortmueller examines the logistics of making film and television during the Covid-19 pandemic.

April 22, 2022<May 4, 2022

Archive as Pulp: In and through Kağıthane

by Merve Ünsal

Merve Ünsal explores the neighborhood of Kagithane (House of Paper) in Istanbul, Turkey, which was formerly a hub of paper production. Ünsal examines the paper supply crisis in Turkey through the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, which is home to the Ottoman state archives.

April 20, 2022<May 4, 2022

Loading…The Streaming Industry in the Pandemic and its Supply Chains

by Tyler Klatt

In the first installment of a dossier on scarcity and the supply chain crisis, Tyler Klatt explores how the media industries have been affected by the global computer chip shortage related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Aesthetic Activism and the Quest for Authenticity in a Time of Crisis

by Brandi T. Summers

The global pandemic has exposed fissures of race and class in Washington DC. Brandi Summers examines how the aesthetics of blackness have been co-opted in the gentrifying city during a period of crisis.