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Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema

Spectres of the City

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Gareth Millington

    1. University of York, York, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a novel analysis of migration and urbanization in British cinema that combines sociology, film studies and human geography
  • Demonstrates that cinema is an inseparable constituent of modern urban imaginaries
  • Shows that the cycle of films analyzed present an incipient aesthetics of planetary urbanization

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Cinema and Urban Society

    • Gareth Millington
    Pages 1-18

  3. Cinema, Cities and Urbanization

    • Gareth Millington
    Pages 19-44

  4. Urbanization and Migration: From City to Camp?

    • Gareth Millington
    Pages 45-73

  5. Dissolving City

    • Gareth Millington
    Pages 75-106

  6. Horizontal Distributions

    • Gareth Millington
    Pages 107-136

  7. Conclusion: Contra Brooklyn: Dissensus and the Limits of Realism

    • Gareth Millington
    Pages 137-145

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 147-152
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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Gareth Millington

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Gareth Millington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. 

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