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Global London on screen
Visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city
Edited by Keith B. Wagner and Roland-François Lack
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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.
About the authors:
Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Professor at Sungshin Women's University and an Affiliated Researcher at LUT UniversityRoland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London
Press Reviews:
'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.'
Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
See the publisher website: Manchester University Press
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