The city as stage: proto-essayistic elements in Chronique d’un été
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Roberto Cavallini mounts a case for Rouch and Morin's Chronique d'un été as an essay film
Roundtables
Notebook on Cities and Clothes: Wim Wenders Takes to the (Inner Ring) Road
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Thomas Elsaesser reconsiders some of Wim Wenders films through the lens of the city and the essay, discovering new dialogic and self-reflexive qualities within them.
Streets & Screens
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Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the perspectives that local and outsider filmmakers bring to the essay film.
The Fiction of Beirut: Reframing Labour Migration in Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste of Cement
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Brenda Hollweg shows how Taste of Cement, part of the recent global growth of the essay film, explores Beirut through the perspective of its migrant workforce, unearthing the city's history and role in regional conflicts, as well as flows of labor.
The Diachronic Flâneur
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Is the critical gaze on the city always a wandering gaze? Laura Rascaroli works through questions of usage and explores how the essay film thinks through its practices.
Introduction: Essay Films and the City
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[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion …
The Lingering Presence of Richard Florida in Gothenburg’s Future Vision
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In the final post of the Roundtable, Helena Holgersson and Erik Florin Persson address the role of Richard Florida's ideas in Gothenburg's self-presentation and self-conception.
The Florida Project, Labor Strife, and Life on the Margins of Disney World
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Alex Kupfer reflects on Disney's history of expropriation in connection to economic inequality and labor disputes as the Roundtable wraps up.
Headhunters and Funmakers: Game Industry Recruiting à Montréal
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Theo Stojanov explores the Montreal game industry's construction of its ideal recruit in the context of local policies, especially surrounding language
TV Happens Here: Negotiating Public Perceptions of Spatial Capital
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Myles McNutt discusses the various ways in which cities do and do not transform their status as popular shooting locations into spatial capital
Living With the Media Industry City
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In this introduction to the second round, Lawrence Webb asks the contributors to consider media industries and the cities they generate from the perspective of those cities' citizens and users
A Deceptive Return to Welfare State Rhetoric in the Marketing Initiatives of Gothenburg
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Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson explore Gothenberg's new promotional films, and trace their attempted resuscitation of older notions of community and government