Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Introduction: Decentring the Cinematic City – Film and Media in the Digital Age 1
5. Transnational Screen Cities
6. In the City but Not Bounded by It: Cinema in the Global, the Generic and the Cluster City 19
7. Traversing the Øresund: the Transnational Urban Region in Bron/Broen 36
8. Neoliberalism, Nollywood and Lagos 59
9. Global City Imaginaries
10. New Urban and Media Ecologies in Contemporary Buenos Aires 79
11. When Harry Met Siri: Digital Romcom and the Global City in Spike Jonze’s Her 95
12. Cinephilia and the City: the Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema 119
13. Public Screens and New Media Landscapes
14. Screen Cultures and the ‘Generic City’: Public Screens in Cairo and Shanghai 143
15. The City as Found Footage: The Reassemblage of Chinese Urban Space 157
16. Remediating the ‘Other Half’: Planet Slum as Transmedia Project 178
17. New Narrative Topographies
18. Interstitial Cityspace and the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary French Cinema 201
19. Seoul, Busan and Somewhere Near: Korean Gangster Noir and Social Immobility 218
20. Chase Sequences and Transport Infrastructure in Global Hollywood Spy Films 235
21. Index 253