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.
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.
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.
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.
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.