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Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema - Spectres of the City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema - Spectres of the City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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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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