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no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 17, 2019

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

By Elmo Gonzaga

[Ed. note: This piece is the second of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. As additional posts are in the series are published, we’ll add links to them here.]

Empty, predawn streets marked …

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 15, 2019

The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema

By Igor Krstić

[Ed. note: This piece is the first of a three-part series on the representation of slums on screen. As additional posts are in the series are published, we’ll add links to them here.]

In my book Slums on …

no. 3, Screening Canada, vol. 4October 12, 2019

Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale

By Malini Guha

Each column hosted on Mediapolis is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears two to three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium in which the author is expert. In each “Screening Canada” column, …

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 4October 9, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies

By Angelo Restivo

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, film and television scholar Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz, Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Ohio University and author of Cinematic …

Counterparts, no. 3, vol. 4October 7, 2019

Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium

By Anna Viola Sborgi

Lisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the bright daylight, sounds from the home blend with traffic noise from the street below, city life …