The Mediapolis Q&A: Cortland Rankin’s Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
Robert Joseph and Cortland Rankin
Cortland Rankin discusses his new book, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York, with Robert Joseph.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically
Paula J. Massood and Erica Stein
Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Race and the Suburbs
Merrill Schleier, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos and Amy Corbin
Merrill Schleier discusses her latest book, Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press, 2021), with three of the book's contributing authors, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos, and Amy Corbin.
Getting to the Heights: The Latinx Neighborhood at Work and Play in Jon M. Chu’s and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New Musical
Catherine Benamou
Catherine Benamou discusses the urban musical In the Heights and unpacks its complex relationship with the Latinx neighborhood of Washington Heights.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity
Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris
Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris discuss their books The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London and Rebranding Precarity: Pop-Up Culture as the Seductive New Normal.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Marcos Dias’s The Machinic City
Tanya Lokot and Marcos Dias
In this installment of our Q&A series, digital media and society scholar and Editorial Board member Tanya Lokot interviews Marcos Dias on his recent book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Malcolm James’s Sonic Intimacy
Helen Kim and Malcolm James
Helen Kim speaks to Malcolm James about his book, Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos.
Mobility, race, citizenship and Driving While Black
Steve Macek
Steve Macek reviews the PBS documentary Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America and discusses the history of race and mobility in the United States.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Elizabeth Patton’s Easy Living
Elana H Levine
Television and media scholar Elana Levine interviews Elizabeth Patton on her recent book Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office.
The Landscape as a Monument: Time, Space and Memory in the Geographies of Eastern Ukraine
Tanya Lokot
Tanya Lokot interviews curators Oleksandra Pogrebnyak and Dmytro Chepurnyi about the Landscape As a Monument art residency programme and the changing geographical and cultural landscapes of Eastern Ukraine.
Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City
Rahul Mukherjee
Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.
Mediapolis Q&A: Rahul Mukherjee’s Radiant Infrastructures
Germaine R Halegoua
Germaine R. Halegoua leads a discussion with Rahul Mukherjee on his recent book Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty.