Global London on Screen

Visitors, Cosmopolitans and Migratory Cinematic Visions of a Superdiverse City

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious, or extraordinary in terms of circumstances as captured cinematically in this superdiverse city. This book portrays a segment of such superdiversity by historicising and theorising various cinematic reproductions of London by filmmakers coming to this megacity from abroad. As visitors, cosmopolitans, or even migrant filmmakers, their treatment of London’s zonal locations as both foreign and familiar is fascinating; their narratives and visualisations of London’s spatial and architectural uniqueness is given a sojourners’ touch; while other foreign filmmakers showcase and sometimes problematise London’s socio-cultural globality and locality as both British and a city open (and sometimes closed off) to the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:577 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526157560

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Professor at Sungshin Women's University and an Affiliated Researcher at LUT UniversityRoland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London

Recensioner i media

'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.'Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city – Keith B. Wagner1 ‘God is everywhere!’: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric Pressburger’s Miracle in Soho – Jingan MacPherson Young2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s – Kevin M. Flanagan3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey – Paul Newland4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London – Malini Guha5 ‘Where I come from, we eat places like this for breakfast’: Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer as transnational representation of local London – Claire MonkBollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence – Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles – Stephanie Dennison8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London – Uchenna Onuzulike9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting – Victor Fan10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece – Lawrence Webb11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the digital happening in globalising London – Michael A. Unger and Keith B. Wagner12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River – Ana Virginia López Fuentes13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men – Mónica MartínEpilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit – Charlotte BrunsdonIndex