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March 1, 2019<March 1, 2019

Spatialising the Time-Image : Viewing Renoir through Deleuze and Guattari

Barry Nevin

Jean Renoir’s vision of space has continued to sustain theorization since André Bazin’s major critical reappraisal of the quintessential French auteur in Cahiers du …

February 28, 2019<February 28, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary

Alexander Davis

Alexander Davis interviews Joshua Glick about his new book, which rethinks Los Angeles as a center of documentary production

February 23, 2019<February 26, 2019

Magical Marinades and Archival Puzzles: An Interview with Jennifer Wild

Jennifer Wild & Matt Hauske

Working in archives requires an archival sensibility. Jennifer Wild talks with Matt Hauske about her experience working in archives, and on the importance of understanding the archive as a space for generating on-the-ground historical perception.

February 20, 2019<February 20, 2019

‘Unceded’ as Elsewhere: Indigenous-Led Concepts of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale

Malini Guha

Malini Guha explores the recent Venice Architectural Biennale through the Turtle Island Pavilion, where land is wrested from a settler colonial and neoliberal conception of ownership and imagined instead in terms of community building and indigenous sovereignty

February 18, 2019<February 20, 2019

Race, Place, and New Orleans in Film and Television

Helen Morgan Parmett

In this post, Helen Morgan Parmett takes stock of some of the ways in which media culture and practice, and particularly film and television, has helped to shape discourses of New Orleans historically and the ways in which more recent shifts in the city’s post-Katrina cultural economy have implicated the industrial conditions of media in the city as well as its global representation.