Urban Film and Everyday Practice Bridging Divisions in Johannesburg
This book explores the ways in which films of Johannesburg assist residents of the city to bridge the divisions and inequalities of contemporary urban space through the four lenses of materiality, identity, mobility, and crime. Films influence the everyda
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Screening Spaces Series Editor Pamela Robertson Wojcik Department of Film, Television, and Theatre University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Screening Spaces is a series dedicated to showcasing interdisciplinary books that explore the multiple and various intersections of space, place, and screen cultures.
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Alexandra Parker
Urban Film and Everyday Practice Bridging Divisions in Johannesburg
Alexandra Parker University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
Screening Spaces ISBN 978-1-137-55479-6 ISBN 978-1-137-55012-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55012-5
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For my parents, Brian and Liz
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My supervisor and mentor, Phil Harrison, was the first person to envision my PhD thesis as a book. He has provided countless hours of guidance and support and is an inspiration himself. I would like to acknowledge the funding from the National Research Foundation South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and Development Planning, which enabled me to do the research and has funded aspects of this book. In the writing of this book I have been funded through a URC postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand. In addition the Wits School of Architecture and Planning have financed some of the images for this project. Some of Chap. 6 has appeared previously in ‘Gangsters’ Paradise: The Representation of Johannesburg in Film and Television’ in the International Journal of the Image, 2 (3) (2012), 167–178. I have also presented this work at various conferences, seminars and work
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