“Lagos, July 2011” – from Mediapolis
“Thinking Media Through Space”
In this installment of Q&A, the Global Cinematic Cities contributors explore how spatial perspectives encourage various “refocusings” of our critical lenses to open new facets of the relationship between media and the urbab, as well as the definition of each.
This Q & A session (in five parts) addresses the central themes of a new edited volume called Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media (eds. Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb). Malini has contributed an essay to this collection titled “Cinephilia and the City: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema”. As the editors state, “Our aim was to curate a diverse selection of research on screen media and global cities that would help to de-westernize the field and take stock of rapid transformations in urban environments and media technologies, as well as the academic debates that had developed alongside them”.
This book will be released in North America on September 13th 2016.