Filmurbia

David Forrest is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield. His research interests are centred on British realist cinema and television drama, with a particular emphases in issues of class, region and nationhood. He is the author of Social Realism: Art, Nationhood and Politics (2013). Graeme Harper is formerly a Director of Research and now Dean. Based in the USA, he was a panellist at Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2003-2014 and at the European Commission, prior to that.  A former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing, he is an award-winning fiction writer.Jonathan Rayner is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield, School of English. His research interests and publications span Australasian cinema, auteur studies, genre cinema and the interplay of landscapes and moving images. With Julia Dobson, he is co-director of the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film (SCRIF).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. ‘Society Stinks’: Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris - John Taylor, University of Pittsburgh. 3. Dis-locations: Mapping the Banlieue - Julia Dobson, University of Sheffield.- 4. Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia - David Forrest, University of Sheffield.- 5. Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude "" ros,="" groningen.-="" 9. system="" within="" suburb:="" dharavi="" class="" depiction="" bollywood - sony="" jalarajan="" raj,="" macewan="" university and="" rohini="" sreekumar,="" monash="" university.-="" 10. Outskirts of Reason: the Dream in Días de papel and Chircales - Albert Elduque, University of Reading.- 11. Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris Janina Schupp, University of Cambridge.- 12. The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful - Jonathan Rayner, University of Sheffield.- 13: Claiming the Suburbs: Children and the Children’s Film Foundation in Post-war British Cinema - Matthew Kerry, Nottingham Trent University.- 14. Sides of The Moon: Detroit and Cinema of Proximity - Graeme Harper, Oakland University.- 15: Sirk and Suburbia: Queering the Straightest Space Imaginable - Cody Lang, York University.- 16. ‘I looked for you in my closet tonight’: staging the violence of the Real through ‘candy-colored’ suburban dreamscapes - Rachel Joseph, Trinity University.