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4. Dissolving City

verfasst von : Gareth Millington

Erschienen in: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The chapter begins by examining how this cycle of films produces images of the city that both capture and anticipate social, spatial and economic transformations in London. Some images reveal a transition in terms of the cinematic register of the city, while others are of the dissolution of the city. The depiction of arcane sites on the periphery of the city as contemporary ‘entry points’ to the city offers a critique of the exclusions and privations of capitalist urbanization and the global city. The chapter then discusses how the cycle of films maintains dwelling and mobility in a state of tension. Finally, the chapter finally examines how the ‘the death of the social’ is intertwined with cinematic depictions of the implosion or dissolution of the city.

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Metadaten
Titel
Dissolving City
verfasst von
Gareth Millington
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8_4