You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished
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In “You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished,” Eleni Kalantzi exposes the inner thoughts and emotions of a student on what’s happening on the “outside.”
Student Voices
Culture in the Mediapolis
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Helen Morgan Parmett and Conn Holohan introduce this installment of Student Voices. First, Helen Morgan Parmett discusses the themes of her seminar course, "Culture in the Mediapolis," from which student essays in the section are drawn. Morgan Parmett emphasizes the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the course and her students. Holohan then provides an introduction to the short films students' submitted as part of the section's special feature on student responses to the pandemic.
From Cultural Desert to Cultural Garden: The Uncertainty of Singapore’s Creative Policy
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Caitlyn Williams analyzes the film Crazy Rich Asians in conjunction with contemporary cultural policy efforts in Singapore that emphasize the creative economy.
Springtime 2020
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Stanley Nugent, an MA student in Film Production & Direction at The John Huston School of Film, N.U.I.G., explores the effect of the lockdown on their 18 year old son in the film "Springtime 2020."
Long Way Home
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In her poetic video essay, "The Long Way Home," Lena Stevens pays homage to the tender moments of togetherness that we are fighting for every moment we spend in isolation.
Sherlock Holmes and Tourism in London
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Michael Naim discusses the phenomenon of Sherlock Holmes tourism in London. Naim argues that Sherlock tours stem from earlier forms of literary tourism, but the series’ multi-generational and multi-media expansions have created a more immersive form of media tourism.
A City’s Lost Identity: An Analysis of The Golden State Warriors’ Relocation from Oakland to San Francisco
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Abigail Rhim explores the departure of the Golden State Warriors from Oakland to San Francisco, arguing that media discourses circulated by the team, fans, and residents of both cities following the move demonstrate the significance of the team to Oakland’s sense of place-based identity.
Detroit and the Glorification of the Past
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Christian Golden compares the use of ruins in the documentary Detroit: Comeback City and the fiction film Gran Torino, arguing that ruins in these two films resonate with the city’s efforts to attract business and investment through imagining a nostalgic past that can be retrieved to renew Detroit’s future.
“It Takes a Village…”: The Use of Childhood to Negotiate Questions of Migration and European Identity in Le Havre
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Anushka Robinson explores Aki Kaurismäki's take on migration, Fortress Europe, northern France, and community ties through theories of childhood and affiliation.
An Archive of Shirkers (2018): Collaging Different Theories of the Archive
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David Chan brings several theories of the archive to bear on the recent documentary Shirkers, asking how the film's openness as a text and mission of collecting a lost film relate to the specificities of place and embodied difference that gave rise to the project.
Worlds Under Watch: The Moving Surveillance-Image and Its Institutions
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Cedric Bobro traces the linguistics roots of surveillance and the fantasy of the omnipotent view through ghosts and AI to the modern surveillance apparatus.
Getting Lost in “Wondaland”: Political Worldbuilding and Timeless Affects in Janelle Monáe’s Metropolis
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Mathilde Fauteux explores the political spaces of Janelle Monáe’s work, concentrating on both the diegetic spaces that make up her recent projects and the transmedia spaces those projects occupy and create.