vol. 2

January 26, 2017<February 4, 2017

First We Take Manhattan: Introducing Marvel Roundtable Part 2

by Erica Stein

In this roundtable redirect, Erica Stein questions what it means for Marvel to image its authenticity in and through New York City. She asks us to consider how Marvel's dispersed and globalized industrial spatiality complicates and interacts with its proclivity for filming (and filming in) New York.

January 25, 2017<January 25, 2017

Trump, The Wire’s Serial Killer, and the State of the News

by Stanley Corkin

Stan Corkin claims the neoliberalization of journalism as a key cause in the rise of Trump, and looks to the fifth season of The Wire as anticipating this phenomenon.

January 24, 2017<January 25, 2017

No Cities to Love: The Urban as Population, not People

by Caitlin Bruce

Caitlin Bruce argues that the city could not figure in public imaginaries as a space for authentic populism in the 2016 U.S. election in part because of its long-standing representation as a contagion in cinema.

January 23, 2017<January 23, 2017

Rediscovering Bodies in Pain on Marvel’s Netflix Shows

by James Gilmore

Netflix's Marvel line-up of shows are transmediated texts that encourage us to ponder whose bodies matter, and how they matter, in the contemporary city.

January 22, 2017<February 2, 2017

Class Consciousness, Cinema, and the Rise of Trump

by Johan Andersson

Johan Andersson explores the relationship between political crisis and class consciousness in cinema past and present.

January 20, 2017<January 21, 2017

Are Cities Sanctuaries? Mapping Migration in the Mediated Metropolis

by Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni explores the limits of local warmth, sanctuary cities, and the mediation of experiences of immigration and migration in fiction films.

January 20, 2017<January 21, 2017

Media and Polis in Light of Trump, Brexit, and the Global Far Right

by Erica Stein & Brendan Kredell

Media and the urban were two key strands in discussions of the US presidential election and Brexit. The Managing Editors re-connect them in this introduction to our From the Editors' Desk feature.

January 20, 2017<January 22, 2017

Marvel Noir: Agent Carter, the Automat, and Urban Wholeness

by Lorrie Palmer

Lorrie Palmer discusses the single period-set Marvel television offering, Agent Carter, and its use of locations like the Automat to evoke a unified city

January 19, 2017<January 20, 2017

Black Metropolis: The Embodied City in Luke Cage

by Matt Yockey

When Marvel's iconic Power Man became Netflix's Luke Cage, the character's bullet-proof black body retained his relevance, and the urban space he occupied became even more important.

January 17, 2017<January 19, 2017

Branding New York: Marvel Comics and Industry Tradition

by Laura Felschow

Marvel Comics’ loyalty to New York City both in its business practices and its produced content have lent both the company and their product a certain degree of marketable perceived authenticity.

January 17, 2017<January 17, 2017

Marvel, the Urban, and Authenticity: An Introduction

by Erica Stein

Since the release of its earliest comics, Marvel Inc. has foregrounded its use of real urban settings to differentiate itself from competitors and market its products in terms of authenticity. This Roundtable explores some of the strategies and consequences of this connection.

January 17, 2017<January 17, 2017

Conference Report: Cities in Crisis

by Christopher Holliday

Christopher Holliday reports on the recent Cities in Crisis symposium held at King's College London.