... exhibits early scholarly trends on the cinematic city and its central preoccupation with European modernity, the city, and the cinema. America Augé Marc Big Ben global city globalization London Paris Playtime Tati Tati Jacques Eiffel Tower modernity Post Imperial Era Period Moment Alphaville...

... London imaginaries become global in their scope. The chapter ultimately develops parallel interrogations of what constitutes the “global” in the global cinematic city and “the world” in critical accounts of world cinema. Algeria Bouchareb Rachid Europe London London River Bouchareb Paris Playtime...

... on a solitary city wandering. The film's cinematic city is the site of trauma, and in its stylistically disposed fantasy world, the hero stands alone, linking this film more with classic noir than the gangster genre. Bittersweet Life A Kim Jee woon Cold War Generic City Koolhaas Rem memory networks noir...

...This chapter explores the development of contemporary documentary theory in the twenty-first century, beginning with the proliferation of documentary films in mainstream cinema and the portrayal of urban spatialities therein. Just as the cinematic city has traditionally been understood as a simple...

... Cidade de Deus Meirelles 2002 Meirelles F poverty porn Slumdog Millionaire Boyle 2008 social documentary photography Sontag S Bhabha H K Hall S polycentrism Said E W Spivak G C Stam R urban marginality cinematic city reform movement social sciences Bazin A Bolter J D Grusin R...

...: the ‘planet of slums’, the ‘cinematic city’, ‘representation’ and the notion of ‘world cinema’. The author suggests that it is important to take critical voices into consideration that explain the ‘mass production of slums’ (Davis) as an effect of global capitalism (Castells et. al.). However, in accordance...

.... Both works explore the commonplaces of what Rafael Pizarro has termed “the Hollywood Urban Imaginarium”, challenging its visual monopoly from the margins of film industry. The outcome of these two experiments is an ambiguous celebration of the cinematic city that cleverly warns against its systematic...

...This chapter offers a wider applicability for the methods of reading for city space by positioning the journey narrative of the cinematic city as integral to the larger story of migrancy and the city. Narratives of migration have always been a feature of cinematic cities, as materialized through...

...Despite the rise of the ‘cinematic city’ as an acknowledged paradigm in film and urban studies, ‘cinematic slums’ have remained severely under-researched, even though near to one billion people – almost one third of the global urban population – call slums their home. Accordingly, the author asks...