Wagner / Unknown / Lack Global London on screen

Visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5757-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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 circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Wagner, Keith B.

Lack, Roland-François

Lack, Roland-Francois

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city – Keith B. Wagner
1 ‘God is everywhere!’: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric Pressburger’s Miracle in Soho – Jingan MacPherson Young
2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s – Kevin M. Flanagan
3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey – Paul Newland
4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London – Malini Guha
5 ‘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 Monk
Bollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence – Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani
7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles – Stephanie Dennison
8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London – Uchenna Onuzulike
9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting – Victor Fan
10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece – Lawrence Webb
11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the digital happening in globalising London – Michael A. Unger and Keith B. Wagner
12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River – Ana Virginia López Fuentes
13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men – Mónica Martín
Epilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit – Charlotte Brunsdon
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Lecturer at Sungshin Women's University
Roland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London