Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema Spectres of the City
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A st
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Gareth Millington
Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
Gareth Millington
Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema Spectres of the City
Gareth Millington University of York York, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-47398-1 ISBN 978-1-137-47399-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to everyone who has supported me while I was writing this book. Special thanks to David Beer who has been encouraging of this project from its inception. I owe a great deal to the fantastic students on my cinema and cities module over the last four years. I have been lucky enough to read some wonderful assignments and been tipped off about many excellent films on cities. Thanks especially to Vladimir Rizov who, in the very first year of the course, suggested to me the possibility of studying the ‘absence’ of the city in movies. Vlad also pointed me in the direction of a great quote from Valences of the Dialectic, so thanks also for that. Thank you to Hannah Pinsent, who suggested some useful references for the sections in the book that deal with cinema and romantic love. Thanks to Judith Allan at Palgrave Macmillan for her patience. Thanks to MoMA and SCALA for the rights for the Giacometti image. Finally, and most importantly, the book would not have been possible without Anya’s unwavering love and support and the daily joys of smiles and
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