Preface

Nathan Holmes is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at SUNY Purchase College. His research and writing focuses on urban visual culture and history, the political imagination of mass culture, and film/media and the environment. He is the author of Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination (SUNY Press, 2018) and has essays published or forthcoming in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory Practice (Rutgers 2016), and Race, Ethnicity, and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press). He is currently an editor at Mediapolis: Journal of Cities and Culture.

Nathan Holmes est professeur adjoint attaché au département d’études du cinéma au Purchase College de SUNY. Ses recherches et ses publications se concentrent sur la culture et l’histoire visuelles urbaines , l’imagination politique de la culture de masse et la relation entre le film, les média et l’environnement. Il est l’auteur de Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination (SUNY Press, 2018). Il a également des essais publiés ou sur le point de paraître dans la New Review of Film and Television Studies, Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory Practice (Rutgers, 2016) et Race, Ethnicity, and the Suburbs in American Films (SUNY Press). Il est à présent éditeur à Mediapolis: Journal of Cities and Culture.