This book, a collection of essays by expert film researchers and lecturers, contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cinematic cities by looking at how one city—London—has been represented on
This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cine
In examining the relationship between the spectacular, iconic and vibrant New York of the musical and the off-screen history and geography of the real city—this book explores how the city shaped the g
While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities an
Examining how animals are exhibited to and encountered by audiences via the close relationship between the zoo and moving image media, contributors consider diverse instances in which the moving image
Cinema and the moving image contribute to viewers' understanding of cities and their topographies in a variety of ways. The contributors chart the many trajectories and points of contact between cinem
Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films
Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Geographic variation and a mobile populace have meant that America is always searching for a home, yet in love with travel. Here
The 1950s saw perhaps the largest number of Hollywood films set on and around the US-Mexico border than any other period in the twentieth century. Many of these films engaged with cold war politics as
Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change, thus it is particularly attentive to the changing spaces of everyday life and the changing social role
