The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories
Ranjani Mazumdar
In this third and final part of our Slums series, Ranjani Mazumdar discusses two recent films that have created "embodied cartographies" of Mumbai's Dharavi.
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MEDIAPOLIS LIVE: London – Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies Symposium
Brendan Kredell
Charlotte Brunsdon, Pamela Wojcik, Malini Guha, and Kulraj Phullar discuss liminal spaces of inclusion/exclusion and South Asian film at the London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies Symposium
The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity
Elmo Gonzaga
In the second part of our Slum series, Elmo Gonzaga probes the ethics of journalistic, cinematic, and gamified images of informal settlements in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema
Igor Krstić
How have slums been represented onscreen? In the first installment of a three-part series, Igor Krstić considers the history of the cinematic representation of slums and examines the capacity of visual media to portray the complex relationships between capitalism and urban development.
Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale
Malini Guha
Malini Guha discusses how IsumaTV's exhibition at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale manifests notions of infrastructural media sovereignty.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies
Angelo Restivo
In this installment of the Mediapolis Q&A, Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz about his new book Cinematic Cryptonomies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film.
Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Sborgi discusses the recent University College London symposium on the essay film and the urban, concentrating on the form's potential to depict socially marginal positions as well as capital's embedding in the city.
A Phenomenological Reading of Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities
David Seamon
David Seamon explores urbanist Jane Jacobs as a phenomenologist, pointing to her understanding of neighborhoods a place-grounded choreography facilitated by interacting physical and human features and processes.