Slums on Screen

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This lucid and necessary study offers a breathtaking coverage of more than a hundred years of slums in film. Igor Krstic undertakes an in-depth scrutiny of handpicked examples of the various phases of slums on screen worldwide, in the light of a rigorous, polycentric and cross-mediatic methodology. Fearlessly confronting the debates around the ethics of representing the underprivileged, Igor Krstic rises, with this book, to the forefront of film studies today. -- Lucia Nagib, University of Reading This book skilfully provides a detailed and wide-ranging account of slum representation across films drawn from most continents and spanning a timeframe of over one hundred years. Analytically too, the book engages with a range of academic thought from the politics of urbanisation and globalisation to approaches drawn from cultural and film studies...[Slums on Screen] will be of great academic interest to scholars and students of development studies, urban politics, film studies and visual anthropology as well as to avid film fans.' -- Shannon Philip * LSE Review of Books * Undertaking nothing less than a genealogy of the representation of slums in popular media, harking back to the pre-cinematic era, Krstic has taken on a huge challenge. Cataloguing a large group of thematically connected films, he deftly analyses shifting and recurring currents across time and space in this absorbing and accessible study. -- Tim O'Farrell * Senses of Cinema * Krstic's highly accessible book shines a perceptive light on an area of world cinema that has been surprisingly under-researched for too long in film studies. It offers a refreshing insight into the relationship between the evolution of film practice and slum presentation and representation... This would appeal to both early researchers and scholars who are interested in the growing scholarship of world cinema.' -- Tamara Courage, University of Reading * Viewfinder *