Will Straw is James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Will Straw is Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery, 2006) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook to Canadian Cinema (with Janine Marchessault, 2019)  Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture (with Alexandra Boutros, 2010), Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin, 2014), and Night Studies (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli, 2020). He has published over 200 articles on music, cinema, popular culture and the urban night.

 

 

 

Keynote Lecture

Are parties radical?

 

Publications

Straw, W. (2023). “Thresholds and transitions: credit sequences and the night.” La furia umana, no. 44, December.

Straw, W. (2023). Blockchain Scenes, co-edited by Nathalie Casemajor and Will Straw. Special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research, vol. 5, no. 2.

Straw, W. (2023). Distance and Connection. Phonograph Records as Narrative Objects in 1940s Cinema. Revue musicale OICRM, vol. 10, no 1,  p. 36-52.

Straw, W. (2022). “La prostituée dans la nuit: étude sur la presse à sensation au Québec, 1942-1960.” Tangence no. 130, pp. 61-83.