Bowdoin Books

Books by Bowdoin Faculty and Alumni

  • Home
  • Bowdoin Faculty Books
  • Bowdoin Alumni Books
You are here: Home / Library / Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures

Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures

By Angel Daniel Matos

Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Available in: Cloth, Paperback
  • ISBN: 978-1-4780-1061-6
  • Published: March 1, 2021
Duke University Press

Editor(s): Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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 Zeldavideo 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

Reviews

“Media Crossroads offers a remarkable set of essays that demonstrate the new insights that can emerge when we apply a purposeful intersectional lens in media studies. As we move through screen spaces of different types (past, present, public, private) in different media (television, cinema, video games, social media), we feel the exhilaration of this volume’s collective experimental project to identify and interrogate spatialized structures of power across the media landscape.”
-Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

“Media Crossroads invites scholars to rethink space and intersectionality, including and going beyond the confines of cities, lands, and architectures. Its analysis of commercial, mainstream, and avant-garde film and media as well as its focus on intersectionality makes it an innovative and important contribution to film and media studies.”
-Yeidy M. Rivero, author of Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960


Series: Bowdoin Faculty Tagged with: 2021, Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies

By Department

Africana Studies
Art History
Asian Studies
Biology
Cinema Studies
Classics
Digital and Computational Studies
Economics
Education
English
Environmental Studies
Francophone Studies
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
German

Government and Legal Studies
History
Hispanic Studies
Latin American Studies
Mathematics
Music
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics and Astronomy
Psychology
Religion
Romance Languages and Literatures
Russian
Sociology and Anthropology
Theater and Dance
Visual Arts

Submit a Book

Let us know about a Bowdoin Book we might have missed >


Bowdoin College