The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies
byIn this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, film and television scholar Angelo …
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Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium
byLisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the …
A Phenomenological Reading of Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities
byThough published almost sixty years ago, urbanist Jane Jacobs’ 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities continues to grow in conceptual and pragmatic …
Landscape as Loneliness in The Last Picture Show
byThe Last Picture Show (Bogdonavich, 1971) begins and ends with the same shot: a pan across a vacant Texas town that seems all but …
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance
byThe Carrie Furnaces are the remains of a blast furnace site where minerals were combined to create pig iron, the base material that is …