Q & A

September 22, 2018<April 2, 2021

Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 2)

by Brendan Kredell

Our Mediapolis Live series continues with part two of an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." Here, she and Mediapolis co-editor Brendan Kredell discuss the legacies of Henry Ford and Coleman Young in contemporary Detroit, and the critique of "creative class" urban planning.

September 16, 2018<April 2, 2021

Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 1)

by Brendan Kredell

Our Mediapolis Live series continues with an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." In the first of a two-part series, co-editor Brendan Kredell discusses with Apel her notion of the "deindustrial sublime" and the nomenclature of ruin photography.

August 20, 2018<October 1, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part Two)

by Lawrence Webb

In part two of the Mediapolis Q+A, Lawrence Webb continues his conversation with Tim Lawrence about the history of dance music culture in New York City.

August 20, 2018<August 24, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part One)

by Lawrence Webb

Tim Lawrence is author of three groundbreaking books on the history of dance music culture in New York City. He sits down with Lawrence Webb to discuss the importance of space and place to writing music history, the extraordinary cultural fertility of New York, and the convergences between disco, punk, and hip-hop in the early 1980s.

July 5, 2018<July 8, 2018

Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part Two: Miranda Pennell)

by Stephen Connolly & Matthew Gibson & Patrick Brian Smith

In the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her …

July 3, 2018<July 3, 2018

Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part One: Alberto Toscano)

by Stephen Connolly & Matthew Gibson & Patrick Brian Smith

The organizers of Kent's recent Visualising Spatial Injustice conference reflect on it and interview one of their keynote speakers, Alberto Toscano.

June 9, 2018<June 10, 2018

The Mediapolis Q&A: Nolwenn Mingant on Reconceptualising Film Policies

by Noelle Griffis

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and global cities, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Nolwenn Mingant, who co-authored and edited Reconceptualising Film Policies (Rutgers University Press, 2017) with Cecilia Tirtaine.

December 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.

November 2, 2017<April 29, 2021

Shannon Mattern on “5000 Years of Urban Media”

by Shannon Mattern

In this special podcast Q&A Mack Hagood interviews Shannon Mattern on her new book, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt, focusing on her discussion of sound.

December 6, 2016<January 17, 2017

Martha Shearer on New York City and the Hollywood Musical

by Brendan Kredell

Martha Shearer sits down with Mediapolis to discuss her new book on the history of New York City musicals.

August 29, 2016<January 17, 2017

The Cinematic City in a Digital Age

by Lawrence Webb & Johan Andersson

The Global Cinematic City contributors consider the place of cinema and the concept of the cinematic city as the urban is increasingly informed by new forms of media, and how best to continue to think about the cinema and the city

August 25, 2016<January 17, 2017

Media Politics/Mediating Politics and the Urban

by Lawrence Webb & Johan Andersson

Our Global Cinematic Cities contributors concentrate on the political implications of their topic, and look at the gaps left when approaching space through media