... 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...

... 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...

...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...