Aki Kaurismaki
Alfonso Cuaron
Bollywood
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cinematic topography
cosmopolitanism
digital happening
Emeric Pressburger
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Film Studies
Gavrik Losey
global London
globalisation
Henrique Goldman
Hindi cinema
multiculturalism
Nollywood
Saskia Sassen
superdiversity
Urban Studies
visitor filmmakers
Product details
- ISBN 9781526191199
- Weight: 403g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Professor at Sungshin Women's University and an Affiliated Researcher at LUT University
Roland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London
