| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index. |
| Contents |
Global Paris : topographics and dwelling spaces -- Global London : highs and lows, spaces and places -- The journey narrative : arrivals and departures. |
| Summary |
Investigates London and Paris as 'migrant cities' in contemporary British and French cinema. The study of globalization in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities to the burgeoning 'world cinema turn' within film studies, which addresses the global nature of film production, exhibition and distribution. In this ambitious new study, Malini Guha draws together these two distinctly different ways of thinking about the cinema, interrogating representations of global London and Paris as migrant cinematic cities, featuring the arrival, settlement and departure of migrant figures from the decline of imperial rule to the global present. Drawing on a range of case studies from contemporary cinema, including the films of Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, Horace OvÃ♭ and Stephen Frears, Guha also considers their world cinema status in light of their reconfiguration of established forms of filmmaking, from modernism to social realism. An illuminating analysis of London and Paris in world cinema from the vantage point of migrant mobilities, From Empire to the World explores the ramifications of this historical shift towards the global, one that pertains in equal measure to cityscapes, their representation as world cinema texts, and to the rise of 'world cinema' discourse within film studies itself. Key Features Develops innovative conceptual tools for understanding and analyzing the depiction of space in the cinema Draws insights from the field of cultural geography in order to produce an interdisciplinary study of migration as featured in film Offers new ways of thinking about cities in the cinema while also revisiting older images and tropes associated with the urban experience, including streetwalking and other forms of urban mobility |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
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Emigration and immigration in motion pictures. |
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Immigrants in motion pictures.
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Immigrants in motion pictures. |
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London (England) -- In motion pictures.
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Paris (France) -- In motion pictures.
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Film theory & criticism. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. |
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Motion pictures. |
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England -- London. |
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France -- Paris. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Migrant London and Paris in the cinema |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Guha, Malini. From empire to the world. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] 9780748656462 (DLC) 2015376635 (OCoLC)900825996 |
| ISBN |
0748656472 (webready PDF) |
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9780748656493 (epub) |
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0748656499 (epub) |
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1474408583 |
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9781474408585 |
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9780748656479 (electronic book) |
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9780748656462 (hardback) |
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0748656464 (hardback) |
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