Forrest, David
Filmurbia
1. Introduction. Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs
David Forrest, Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner
Section I. Suburban Realisms
2. ‘Society Stinks’: Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris
John Taylor
3. Dis-Locations: Mapping the Banlieue
Julia Dobson
4. Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia
David Forrest
Section II. Suburban Nations
5. Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social Realism
Clive James Nwonka
6. The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema
Elizabeth Ellison
7. The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis’ Films
Tom Ue
Section III. Slumurbia and Social Order
8. The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrich’s Documentary Triptych
Annelies Noortwijk, Vincent Ros
9. System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood
Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar
10. Outskirts of Reason: The Dream in
Albert Elduque
Section IV. Suburban Genres
11. Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris
Janina Schupp
12. The Suburban Australian Gothic in
Jonathan Rayner
13. Claiming the Suburbs: Children and the Children’s Film Foundation in Post-War British Cinema
Matthew Kerry
Section V. Suburban Imaginaries
14. Sides of the Moon: Detroit and the Cinema of Proximity
Graeme Harper
15. Sirk and Suburbia: Queering the Straightest Space Imaginable
Cody Lang
16. ‘I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight’: Staging the Violence of the Real through ‘Candy-Colored’ Suburban Dreamscapes
Rachel Joseph
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, Human Geography, Cultural Anthropology
- Editor
- Forrest, David
- Harper, Graeme
- Rayner, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 16 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137531759
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-53174-2