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The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary
Joshua Glick’s Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 (2018, University of California Press) offers a magnificent excavation of the city’s documentary production cultures. Importantly, the project explores how the city’s films and television programs made a …
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Magical Marinades and Archival Puzzles: An Interview with Jennifer Wild
For both seasoned and novice historians, the experience of entering an archive for the first time can be incredibly overwhelming. Too much material to take in, time constrictions, obscure institutional protocols, and bewildering surprises of all kinds conspire against the …
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‘Unceded’ as Elsewhere: Indigenous-Led Concepts of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale
[But our demise is greatly exaggerated – Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issue in Canada]
‘Unceded: The Voices of the Land’, the very first Indigenous-led exhibition to be presented at the 2018 …
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Race, Place, and New Orleans in Film and Television
[Ed. note: This post is adapted from the author’s keynote address for the Media & Communication Geography Specialty Interest Group at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 12 April 2018.]
New Orleans in film and television figures …
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