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'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.'
Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
'The originality of this collection's contribution is its focus on filmed London as a global space... The contributors examine these questions richly and diversly, reflecting on how 'globality' slides often ambivalently across multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, imperial legacy migration and neoliberal flows of global capital and labour.’
The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present
Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Professor at Sungshin Women's University and an Affiliated Researcher at LUT University
Roland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London
Introduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city – Keith B. Wagner
1 ‘God is everywhere!’: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric Pressburger’s Miracle in Soho – Jingan MacPherson Young
2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s – Kevin M. Flanagan
3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey – Paul Newland
4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London – Malini Guha
5 ‘Where I come from, we eat places like this for breakfast’: Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer as transnational representation of local London – Claire Monk
Bollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence – Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani
7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles – Stephanie Dennison
8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London – Uchenna Onuzulike
9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting – Victor Fan
10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece – Lawrence Webb
11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the digital happening in globalising London – Michael A. Unger and Keith B. Wagner
12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River – Ana Virginia López Fuentes
13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men – Mónica Martín
Epilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit – Charlotte Brunsdon
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