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no. 3, Threads, vol. 4November 1, 2019

The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories

By Ranjani Mazumdar

[Ed. note: This is the final instalment of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. You can read part one here and part two here]

In his book Planet of Slums, Mike Davis presents …

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 17, 2019

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

By Elmo Gonzaga

[Ed. note: This piece is the second of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. As additional posts are in the series are published, we’ll add links to them here.]

Empty, predawn streets marked …

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 15, 2019

The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema

By Igor Krstić

[Ed. note: This piece is the first of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. As additional posts are in the series are published, we’ll add links to them here.]

In my book Slums on …

no. 4, Threads, vol. 3November 5, 2018

A Historiographic Approach to Old Tucson

By Joshua Gleich

Clearly archival film history is not a new trend, but it has achieved a growing importance in the analysis of cinematic geography. Work by Mark Shiel on Hollywood and Los Angeles’ intertwining development, Daniel Steinhart on runaway production in Europe, …

no. 4, Threads, vol. 3November 4, 2018

A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson

By Chris Lukinbeal

Cartography, landscape, and cinema can be conceptualized through products and practices, inscriptionsand incorporations, visuality and montage. A geographic approach to research on Old Tucson is a (re)construction project, one that aims to inform the formation of the Sonoran Westerns landscape. …