The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes
Noelle Griffis
Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary
Alexander Davis
Alexander Davis interviews Joshua Glick about his new book, which rethinks Los Angeles as a center of documentary production
Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 2)
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.
Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline” (Part 1)
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.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part Two)
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.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Tim Lawrence on Dance Music Culture in New York City (Part One)
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.
Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part Two: Miranda Pennell)
Stephen Connolly & Matthew Gibson & Patrick Brian SmithIn 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 …
Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part One: Alberto Toscano)
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.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Nolwenn Mingant on Reconceptualising Film Policies
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.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect
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.
Shannon Mattern on “5000 Years of Urban Media”
Shannon Mattern and Mack Hagood
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.
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.