Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums

(laminated hard covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [minor handling wear only, a nice clean book]. "Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, [the author] outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios populares or chawls of our 'planet of slums,' exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predecessors."

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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Year: (c.2016)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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