Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and concepts with which we can grasp this vital interconnection between space and screen, viewer and built environment? Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the 'cinematic city' at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities within one volume, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and its dynamics of exchange, hybridity, and circulation. The contributions examine film and screen cultures in a range of locations spanning five continents: Antibes, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Caracas, Copenhagen, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Los Angeles, Malmö, Manila, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sète, and Shanghai. The chapters address topics that range across the contemporary film and media landscape, from popular cinema, art cinema, and film festivals to serial television, public screens, multimedia installations, and video art.
Contributors: Chris Berry, Yomi Braester, Jinhee Choi, Pei-Sze Chow, Thomas Elsaesser, Malini Guha, Jonathan Haynes, Will Higbee, Igor Krstic, Christian B. Long, Joanna Page, Lawrence Webb.
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Decentring the Cinematic City—Film and Media in the Digital Age
- Part 1: Transnational Screen Cities
- 1. In the City but Not Bounded by It: Cinema in the Global, the Generic and the Cluster City,
by Thomas Elsaesser
- 2. Traversing the Øresund: the Transnational Urban Region in Bron/Broen, by Pei-Sze Chow
- 3. Neoliberalism, Nollywood, and Lagos, by Jonathan Haynes
- Part 2: Global City Imaginaries
- 4. New Urban and Media Ecologies in Contemporary Buenos Aires, by Joanna Page
- 5. When Harry Met Siri: Digital Romcom and the Global City in Spike Jonze’s Her, by Lawrence Webb
- 6. Cinephilia and the City: the Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema, by Malini Guha
- Part 3: Public Screens and New Media Landscapes
- 7. Screen Cultures and the ‘Generic City’: Public Screens in Cairo and Shanghai, by Chris Berry
- 8. The City as Found Footage: the Reassemblage of Chinese Urban Space, by Yomi Braester
- 9. Remediating the ‘Other Half’: Planet Slum as Transmedia Project, by Igor Krstić
- Part 4: New Narrative Topographies
- 10. Interstitial Cityspace and the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary French Cinema, by William Higbee
- 11. Seoul, Busan and Somewhere Near: Korean Gangster Noir and Social Immobility, by Jinhee Choi
- 12. Chase Sequences and Transport Infrastructure in Global Hollywood Spy Films, by Christian B. Long
- Index
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