George Romero’s Pittsburgh: City of the Living Dead

February 26, 2025.Reading time 25 minutes.

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth and final post in our theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Victoria Timpanaro October 1, 1968 was the world premiere of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living […]

THE CITIZEN, FILM, AND INDIA’S NATION-BUILDING PROJECT: A QUEST FOR MODERNITY

February 25, 2025.Reading time 28 minutes.

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth post in our theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Shruti Hussain We lock eyes with a stream of children, of women and men, peering straight at the camera […]

Edward W. Lewis’s Life in Harlem: A City of Contrasts

February 19, 2025.Reading time 21 minutes.

Black and white photograph from 1940 of an Arican American man wearing apron standing in doorway of Harlem grocery store, with sign, "Our Own Community Grocery & Delicatessen," above.

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in our theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here By Alyssa Lopez In March 1935, when sixteen-year-old Lino Rivera pocketed a knife while cutting through the S.H. Kress dime […]

Megalopolis and the 15-Minute City

February 12, 2025.Reading time 18 minutes.

Editor’s Note: This is the third post in our theme for February 2025 “Celluloid City” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Jannat Suleman Since the introduction of the theoretical 15-minute city, there’s been significant nitpicking at the so-called socialist concept […]

Building the Golden City: Rome in the Gladiator Films

February 5, 2025.Reading time 27 minutes.

Editor’s Note: This is the second post in The Metropole’s theme for February 2025 “Celluloid City” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Grace Gillies The Rome in both Gladiator films is a landscape of monumental architecture subtly but pervasively inflected […]

Introducing Celluloid City: Film and the Metropolis

February 4, 2025.Reading time 8 minutes.

Editor’s note: The theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” explores the interplay between cities and film. This overview kicks off the month with subsequent pieces by contributors to follow. You can see all posts from the theme here. Nearly five years ago, The Metropole spent the month of April 2020 thinking about “The Visual City.” […]