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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Dissolving City

Author : Gareth Millington

Published in: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema

Publisher: 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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Metadata
Title
Dissolving City
Author
Gareth Millington
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-47398-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-47399-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8_4