Media Crossroads

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.

“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) "The intersectional lens developed in [Media Crossroads] is original, vigorous, and reflective enough to alter the readers' perspectives towards media texts that they have seen before and the ones they will experience in the future. Its lasting influence will make the readers rethink, reconfigure, and reimagine the potential of intersectional space and identities on and offscreen." - Da Ye Kim (E3W Review of Books)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Intersections and/in Space / Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik  1I. Digital Intersections1. "Where Do Aliens Pee?": Bathroom Selfies, Trans Activism, and Reimagining Spaces / Nicole Erin Morse  212. The Queerness of Space and the Body in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Series / Angel Daniel Matos  343. The Digital FlÂneuse: Exploring Intersectional Identities and Spaces through Walking Simulators / Matthew Thomas Payne and John Vanderhoef  50II. Cinematic Urban Intersections4. Blurring Boundaries, Exploring Intersections: Form, Genre, and Space in Shirley Clarke's The Connection / Paula J. Massood  675. Intersections in Madrid's Periphery: Cinematic Cruising in Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino (1972) / Jacqueline Sheean  826. Encounters and Embeddedness: The Urban Cinema of Ramin Bahrani / Amy Corbin  967. Perpetual Motion: Mobility, Precarity, and Slow Death Cinema / Pamela Robertson Wojcik  111III. Urbanism and Gentrification8. Senior Citizens under Siege: Number Our Days (1976) and Gray Power Activism in Venice / Joshua Glick  1279. Music City Makeover: The Televisual Tourism of Nashville / Noelle Griffis  14110. Portland at the Intersection: Gentrification and the Whitening of the City in Portlandia's Hipster Wonderland / Elizabeth A. Patton  15511. Criminal Properties: Real Estate and the Upwardly Mobile Gangster / Erica Stein  167IV. Race, Place, and Space12. Dressing the Part: Black Maids, White Stars in the Dressing Room / DesirÉe J. Garcia  18313. "I Do Not Know That I Find Myself Anywhere": The British Heritage Film and Spaces of Intersectionality in Amma Asante's Belle (2013) / Sara Louise Smyth  19514. Queerness, Race, and Class in the Midcentury Suburb Film Crime of Passion (1956) / Merrill Schleier  20615. Fair Play: Race, Space, and Recreation n Black Media Culture / Peter C. Kunze  221V. Style and/as Intersectionality16. The Toxic Intertwining of Small Town Lives in Happy Valley / Ina Rae Hark  23717. Tattooed Light and Embodied Design: Intersectional Surfaces in Moana / Kirsten Moana Thompson  25018. Vaguely Visible: Intersectional Politics in Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama (2016) / Malini Guha  262Notes  275Bibliography  303Contributors  329Index  335