“Sous les paves, la plage!” [Under the paving stones, the beach]
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Mark Shiel considers some historical precedents for the current moment.
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Trump and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Stan Corkin discusses Trump's affinity with televisuality and the dangers of the reality effect.
The Speed of Power, The Pace of Protest: Resistant Urban Rhythms
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Caitlin Bruce identifies the polyrhythmic nature of the city as a potent model for resistance to the Trump administration's tactics, and to anti-urban representations of the city as population instead of populace.
Migrating Globally, Fighting Back Locally
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Sabine Haenni fills in the "points of warmth" on her migration map with examples of local resistance and local cinemas.
Hollywood and the Muslim Ban: The Contemporary War Film as Urban Cinema
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Johan Andersson considers the relationship between Trump's rhetoric and the anti-urban themes of the contemporary war film.
Assembling an Entry Point: Notes on Navigating the Superhero Genre
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In this final response, James Gilmore suggests that the vastness of the superhero genre defies generalizations and instead requires scholars to take situated "entry points" to the genre.
On the Outpacing of Reality and the Uses of Representation
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Managing Editors Erica Stein and Brendan Kredell kick off the second phase of From the Editors' Desk by asking what role media and the city can play in an effective response to the rapid pace of change.
Resisting the Grid: A Centrifugal Dance in Marvel’s Relocated City
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Lorrie Palmer follows Agent Carter off the grid in her discussion of the second season's unruly spaces and unruly women.
Cinemas of Economic Crisis: Interdisciplinary Teaching in Languages & Film Studies
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Dennis Hanlon and Amy Tibbitts discuss how they managed issues connected to team teaching, interdisciplinary topics, and diversely prepared student populations in their class on Spanish and Argentine cinemas of the economic crisis.
Borderless Worlds, Imagined Places: Bending Time and Space in the MCU
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Laura Felschow analyzes Marvel's expansion of authenticity to the international in world building and marketing.
Do Not Adjust Your Set! Recalibrating Urban Cinema and Media Studies Under Donald Trump
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Mark Shiel calls for urban cinema and media studies to reorient its methodologies in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
Excelsior: Reaching Toward Utopia in Marvel’s New York
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In the first response, Matt Yockey argues Marvel links the superhero to the urban, and to New York City in particular, through affect-inducing strategies that belie both Marvel's, and the city's, "ever upward" aspirations.