London as Screen Gateway

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Edited by Elizabeth Evans and Malini Guha

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Great Britain

Keywords

Great Britain, economics

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

1st publishing

2023

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 270 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-19796-8

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Book Presentation:
London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the intersection between London as a material place and its position within a cultural imaginary.

Conceptualising London as an archival city, as a collection of specific places and spaces, and as a part of national and international cultural and economic flows, contributors from film studies, television studies and media studies approach London through the lenses of textual analysis, historical work, industry studies and user experience. Chapters explore how London has appeared on screen across film and television, how screen content frames notions of place and belonging within the diasporic communities across the city, how the city has become a hub for the UK and global screen industries and how it intersects with national and local media policy.

This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, television studies, media industry studies, games studies, cultural and media studies.

About the authors:
Elizabeth Evans is Professor of Screen Cultures at the University of Nottingham. Her research examines the intersection of screen audiences, screen industries and technology studies. She is the author of Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media and Daily Life (2011) and Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture (2020) and co-editor of Participations: The Online Journal of Audience and Reception Studies.
Malini Guha is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. As a contributing editor for the online journal Mediapolis, she writes a regular column, ‘Screening Canada’, where she explores an aspect of Canada’s mediated place-making in relation to recent issues concerning its global role and domestic negotiation of racial and ethnic difference.

See the publisher website: Routledge