Overview
- 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)
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of York, York, United Kingdom
Gareth Millington
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
Book Subtitle: Spectres of the City
Authors: Gareth Millington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47398-1Published: 15 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47399-8Published: 09 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 152
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Migration, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)