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

Platforms as urban technology?

By Lizzie Richardson

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Platform Urbanism.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Does “platform urbanism” mark a particular, perhaps even …

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. …

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

Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography

By Josh Gleich & Chris Lukinbeal

Between the 1950s and the 1990s, dozens of Hollywood productions traveled to Old Tucson Studios, an isolated production facility a few miles past the outskirts of Tucson, largely to shoot Westerns. Why journey 500 miles away, at considerable expense, to …

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 2, 2018

At the margins of the market: notes on the essay film’s modes of production and distribution

By Roberto Cavallini

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In this second round, I’d …