Media Crossroads

The contributors to <i>Media Crossroads</i> 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 <i>Portlandia</i> or the link between queerness and the spatial design and gaming mechanics in the <i>Legend of Zelda</i> video game series the contributors deepen understanding of screen cultures in ways that redefine conversations around space studies in film and media.<br><br>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