Reviewed

September 21, 2021<September 21, 2021

Getting to the Heights: The Latinx Neighborhood at Work and Play in Jon M. Chu’s and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New Musical

by Catherine Benamou

Catherine Benamou discusses the urban musical In the Heights and unpacks its complex relationship with the Latinx neighborhood of Washington Heights.

September 16, 2021<September 16, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity

by Mara Ferreri

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.

Screenshot of one of the short films from 2097: We Made Ourselves Over by Blast Theory. Source: Blast Theory.

July 8, 2021<October 5, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Marcos Dias’s The Machinic City

by Tanya Lokot

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.

June 24, 2021<June 24, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Malcolm James’s Sonic Intimacy

by Helen Kim

Helen Kim speaks to Malcolm James about his book, Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos.

April 6, 2021<April 7, 2021

Mobility, race, citizenship and Driving While Black

by 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.

January 15, 2021<February 3, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Elizabeth Patton’s Easy Living

by Elana H Levine

Television and media scholar Elana Levine interviews Elizabeth Patton on her recent book Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office.

November 11, 2020<November 11, 2020

The Landscape as a Monument: Time, Space and Memory in the Geographies of Eastern Ukraine

by 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.

October 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.

October 9, 2020<October 20, 2020

Mediapolis Q&A: Rahul Mukherjee’s Radiant Infrastructures

by Germaine R Halegoua

Germaine R. Halegoua leads a discussion with Rahul Mukherjee on his recent book Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty.

August 10, 2020<August 12, 2020

The Mediapolis Q&A: Priya Jaikumar on Where Histories Reside

by Sushmita Banerji

In this issue's Mediapolis Q&A, film scholar Sushmita Banerji interviews Priya Jaikumar on her most recent book Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space.

June 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

October 9, 2019<October 10, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies

by Angelo Restivo

In this installment of the Mediapolis Q&A, Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz about his new book Cinematic Cryptonomies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film.