Polished Panels

This panel contributes to the growing scholarly conversation around cinema and architecture, focusing on the architectural configurations of the moving and projected image. Moving-image installations and media architecture have recently given renewed currency to established notions of dispositif, apparatus, …

The mediation of place often parallels urban (and suburban) economic developments including gentrification, ghettoization, and white flight, reinforcing the stigma associated with devalued areas and the underprivileged, and the desire for spaces associated with affluence and whiteness. At the same …

This panel explores how horror cinema “takes place” in urban environments. Horror not only records these urban settings, but often reimagines them in order to produce a haunted and/or counter-history of the development of cities. Our panel’s focus on urbanity …