[ecrea] New Book Announcement: 'Slums on Screen' by Igor Krstić

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT


Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
By Igor Krstić


Hardback / April 2016 / 288 pages / ISBN 9781474406864 / £75.00 / 
Published by Edinburgh University Press

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About the book:
Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor 
Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or 
fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 
‘planet of slums’, exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has 
intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. 
From Jacob Riis’How The Other Half Lives(1890) to Danny Boyle’sSlumdog 
Millionaire(2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of 
films from different historical periods and regions to outline how 
contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predecessors, 
demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the 
equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously 
modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our ‘planet of 
slums’.


Case studies include How The Other Half Lives (1890), Housing Problems 
(1935), Los Olvidados (1950), Moi, un noir(1958), De Cierta Manera 
(1974), Time of the Gypsies (1989), The Philippine New Wave (2000s), 
Fontainhas Trilogy(1997 - 2006), City of God (2002) and Slumdog 
Millionaire (2008).


Find out more about Slums on 
Screen:_https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-slums-on-screen-hb.html_


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Dr Igor Krstic
DAAD-Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Film, Theatre and Television
University of Reading
Minghella Building
Shinfield Road, Reading RG6 6BT
URL:http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/about/staff/IgorKrsticprofilepage.aspx 
<http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/about/staff/IgorKrsticprofilepage.aspx>

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