Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
Spectres of the City
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 9. November 2016
IX, 152 Seiten
978-1-137-47399-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding urban fabric, it offers an alternative to the 'cultural cityism' of many other films about migration. The author demonstrates that this particular film cycle offers a rare, sustained consideration of the travails and struggles for urban life by migrants beyond and without the city. Yet the city haunts these films like a spectre: the city that has been lost, the 'present' city that excludes and the possible 'cities of refuge' of the future. Offering new insights into the cinematic portrayal of the figure of the migrant and how this is constructed in relation to urbanization processes, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, film and media studies, human geography, and urban studies.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Produkt-Hinweis
Reflowable
Illustrationen
IX, 152 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.
Dateigröße
2,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-47399-8 (9781137473998)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8
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Buch
12/2015
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Person
Gareth Millington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.
Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: Cinema and Urban Society.- Chapter 2. Cinema, Cities and Urbanization.- Chapter 3. Urbanization and Migration: From City to Camp?.- Chapter 4. British Cinema, Migration and the Dissolving City.- Chapter 5. British Cinema, the Migrant and Planetary Urbanization: Horizontal Distributions.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Against Brooklyn: Dissensus and the Limits of Realism?
