Martha Shearer on New York City and the Hollywood Musical
Brendan Kredell
Martha Shearer sits down with Mediapolis to discuss her new book on the history of New York City musicals.
Q & A
The Cinematic City in a Digital Age
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
Media Politics/Mediating Politics and the Urban
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
Investigating Global Cinematic Cities
Lawrence Webb and Johan Andersson
In this introduction to our Q&A on the edited volume Global Cinematic Cities, editors Lawrence Webb and Johan Andersson talk about their project and the questions they asked their contributors in light of the instability surrounding both global cities and cinematic cities.
Thinking Media Through Space
Lawrence Webb & Johan Andersson
In this installment of Q&A, the Global Cinematic Cities contributors explore how spatial perspectives encourage various "refocusings" of our critical lenses to open new facets of the relationship between media and the urbab, as well as the definition of each.