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Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
Gareth Millington
其他書名
Spectres of the City
出版Springer, 2016-11-09
主題Social Science / GeneralSocial Science / Emigration & ImmigrationScience / Earth Sciences / GeographyPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN11374739919781137473998
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Sex6DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.