The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories
Ranjani Mazumdar
In this third and final part of our Slums series, Ranjani Mazumdar discusses two recent films that have created "embodied cartographies" of Mumbai's Dharavi.
Threads
The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity
Elmo Gonzaga
In the second part of our Slum series, Elmo Gonzaga probes the ethics of journalistic, cinematic, and gamified images of informal settlements in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema
Igor Krstić
How have slums been represented onscreen? In the first installment of a three-part series, Igor Krstić considers the history of the cinematic representation of slums and examines the capacity of visual media to portray the complex relationships between capitalism and urban development.
A Historiographic Approach to Old Tucson
Joshua Gleich
Josh Gleich examines the value and limitations of historical records that will inform his cross-disciplinary study of Old Tucson Studios.
A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson
Chris Lukinbeal
Chris Lukinbeal explains how GIS techniques, drone technology, and multi-layer mapping data can help trace the topography of location shoots.
Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography
Josh Gleich & Chris Lukinbeal
Josh Gleich and Chris Lukinbeal use a perennial location for westerns to ask how film scholars and geographers might each approach such a site and what they might learn from one another.