Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1478010614 ISBN 13: 9781478010616

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2021

Synopsis

The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability. Considering a wide range of film, television, video games, and other media, the authors show how spaces—from the large and fantastical to the intimate and virtual—are shaped by the social interactions and intersections staged within them. The highly teachable essays include analyses of media representations of urban life and gentrification, the ways video games allow users to adopt an experiential understanding of space, the intersection of the regulation of bodies and spaces, and how style and aesthetics can influence intersectional thinking. Whether interrogating the construction of Portland as a white utopia in Portlandia or the link between queerness and the spatial design and gaming mechanics in the Legend of Zelda video game series, the contributors deepen understanding of screen cultures in ways that redefine conversations around space studies in film and media.

Contributors. Amy Corbin, Desirée J. Garcia, Joshua Glick, Noelle Griffis, Malini Guha, Ina Rae Hark, Peter C. Kunze, Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, Nicole Erin Morse, Elizabeth Patton, Matthew Thomas Payne, Merrill Schleier, Jacqueline Sheean, Sarah Louise Smyth, Erica Stein, Kirsten Moana Thompson, John Vanderhoef, Pamela Robertson Wojcik

About this title

About the Author

Paula J. Massood is Professor, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, City University of New York.

Angel Daniel Matos is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College.

Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478010614
• ISBN 13: 9781478010616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Massood Paula J., Matos Angel Daniel, Wojcik Pamela Robertson