Landscape as Loneliness in The Last Picture Show
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Daryl Meador explores how the cinematography, soundscape, and generic context of Texas in The Last Picture Show not only evoke alienation but articulate it to settler colonialism.
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Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance
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In this issue's Global Public Art column, Caitlin Bruce discusses her Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project, which connects post-industrial cities across the US/Mexico border and offers new ways of producing and engaging graffiti and mural-making.
“It Takes a Village…”: The Use of Childhood to Negotiate Questions of Migration and European Identity in Le Havre
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Anushka Robinson explores Aki Kaurismäki's take on migration, Fortress Europe, northern France, and community ties through theories of childhood and affiliation.
An Archive of Shirkers (2018): Collaging Different Theories of the Archive
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David Chan brings several theories of the archive to bear on the recent documentary Shirkers, asking how the film's openness as a text and mission of collecting a lost film relate to the specificities of place and embodied difference that gave rise to the project.
Worlds Under Watch: The Moving Surveillance-Image and Its Institutions
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Cedric Bobro traces the linguistics roots of surveillance and the fantasy of the omnipotent view through ghosts and AI to the modern surveillance apparatus.
Getting Lost in “Wondaland”: Political Worldbuilding and Timeless Affects in Janelle Monáe’s Metropolis
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Mathilde Fauteux explores the political spaces of Janelle Monáe’s work, concentrating on both the diegetic spaces that make up her recent projects and the transmedia spaces those projects occupy and create.
Introduction: SCMS-U & Student Voices
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In her introduction to this installment of Student Voices, Amy Corbin contextualizes the essays in the work of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies's undergraduate conference, which she co-organized. She also provides a platform for Jeffery Lin, an invited contributor, to discuss the ongoing protests on Hong Kong and his reasons for withdrawing his essay.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes
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Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.
Notes on the Personal Archive: A Response to Giorgia Piffaretti
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As a response to Giorgia Piffaretti, Floris Paalman elaborates on her model of the newsstand in relationship to personal archives and archival value.
A NEW(S) STAND: UNFOLDING LAYERS OF MEANING – archival praxis, between observation, projection and imagination
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In this installment of ‘from the archive’, Swiss artist Giorgia Piffaretti focuses on the subject of ‘personal archive’. Starting from her own archive, she recognizes potential in everyday objects and situations, based on the observation of a newsstand at the border between Italy and Switzerland. Persisting in a digital era, Piffaretti has examined its archival features, for the way it provides access to the world through its papers and magazines.