Global London on Screen: Visitors, Cosmopolitans and Migratory Cinematic Visions of a Superdiverse City

Global London on screen explores the diverse cinematic representations of London by filmmakers from the Global South and North, showcasing the city's superdiversity and its spatial and architectural uniqueness.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Global London on screen presents a captivating blend of films by directors hailing from both the Global South and North, showcasing a diverse range of everyday life experiences and capturing the extraordinary, odious, or fantastical aspects of circumstances as depicted cinematically within this incredibly diverse city. This book delves into a segment of this remarkable superdiversity by historicizing and theorizing various cinematic representations of London crafted by filmmakers arriving in this bustling metropolis from abroad. Whether they are visitors, cosmopolitans, or migrant filmmakers, their approach to depicting London's zonal locations as both foreign and familiar is intriguing. Their narratives and visualizations of London's spatial and architectural distinctiveness infuse a sense of wanderlust, while other foreign filmmakers showcase and sometimes problematize London's socio-cultural globality and locality, as both British and a city that is both open to the world and occasionally closed off.

Global London on screen presents a captivating blend of films by directors hailing from both the Global South and North, showcasing a diverse range of everyday life experiences and capturing the extraordinary, odious, or fantastical aspects of circumstances as depicted cinematically within this incredibly diverse city. This book delves into a segment of this remarkable superdiversity by historicizing and theorizing various cinematic representations of London crafted by filmmakers arriving in this bustling metropolis from abroad. Whether they are visitors, cosmopolitans, or migrant filmmakers, their approach to depicting London's zonal locations as both foreign and familiar is intriguing. Their narratives and visualizations of London's spatial and architectural distinctiveness infuse a sense of wanderlust, while other foreign filmmakers showcase and sometimes problematize London's socio-cultural globality and locality, as both British and a city that is both open to the world and occasionally closed off.

Weight: 580g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526157560