Gentrification and Screen Media
Ipek A. Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis
Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on film/TV and gentrification.
vol. 9
The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce on Voices in Aerosol
Caitlin Bruce and Scott Rodgers
Scott Rodgers talks to Caitlin Bruce about her recent book, Voices in Aerosol.
Voices Episode 7: Caitlin Bruce on Graffiti Culture and Urban Institutional Attunement
Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin Bruce discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has taken on new life as socially-engaged scholarship.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Adam Ochonicky and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Adam Ochonicky talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her latest book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.
International Videoletters: Feminists’ Hope and Our Own Self-Grown Media
Ariel Dougherty
International Videoletters (1975–1977) was a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. Looking back on her involvement with the group, Ariel Dougherty explains its significance and emphasizes the importance of preserving its artifacts for feminist media history.
Bologna and its Computing Centers: An Archaeology of Urban Media (1961–2022)
Stefano Corbo
Bologna is one of the main data processing hubs in Europe. Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of the city’s computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent history of the city, we must pay attention to the material history of data.
Marketing Nation: The Spectacular Outdoor Advertisements of Douglas Leigh in Postwar America
Jane Zhang
From electronic billboards to spectacular dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leigh’s corporate campaigns mediated the relationship between individual and national identity in postwar America.
Artifacts of Urban Digitization: The Digital Commoditization of the Urban Environment in Rome
Kaitlyn Adèle Barrett-Gullion
In this Student Voices essay, Kaitlyn Adèle Barrett-Gullion uses visual ethnographic methods to analyse photographic practices at a series of “Instagrammable” locations in Rome.
TV Representation of Female Drug Abuse Within the Urban Night
Ava DeAngelis
In this Student Voices essay, Ava DeAngelis compares the representation of female drug abuse and the urban night in two television series, Euphoria and Gossip Girl.
Fear On and Off Screen: Constructing Women’s Fear of the Urban Night in Film
Marica Loffreda
In this Student Voices essay, Marica Loffreda explores how the female fear of the urban night is reproduced by screen representations of sexual assault.
Introduction: Teaching Urban Media
Eleonora Diamanti
Eleonora Diamanti discusses designing the syllabus for her course "Urban Media" and introduces the essays in the Student Voices section.
The Pretorian Paradise Paradox: Waiting and Contemplating in the Middling City
Chris Broodryk
In the lead-up to South Africa’s first democratic elections, the television series Tropical Heat used Pretoria to double as a fictional Florida city. Chris Broodryk considers the complex political dynamics of the series and its transformation of Pretoria into a “retrotopian” space.