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Author Krsti, Igor, author.

Title Slums on screen : world cinema and the planet of slums / Igor Krsti.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Slums on and off screen -- Global currents. Sensational remediations -- Documentary mappings -- Neorealist narratives -- Third docufiction -- Postmodern bricolages -- Digital realisms -- Local expressions. Favelas on screen -- Bombay cinema.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 17, 2018).
Summary A polycentric approach to the representation of slums in world cinema. Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats? Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' 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, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.
Subject Cities and towns in motion pictures.
Slums.
Motion pictures -- History.
Villes au cinéma.
Cinéma -- Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Cities and towns in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Slums
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Added Title World cinema and the planet of slums
In: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Krsti, Igor. Slums on screen. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] 9781474406864 (DLC) 2015478228 (OCoLC)928134546
ISBN 1474406874 (electronic bk.)
9781474406871 (electronic bk.)
1474406882 (EPUB)
9781474406888
9781474406864
1474406866
9781474406888 (epub)
9781474421928 (online)
147442192X
Standard No. AU@ 000062520668
UKMGB 019112214
UKMGB 020841745

 
    
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