Global Cinematic Cities

Offering an extremely thoughtful mix of established and new voices, this is an intellectually exciting contribution to film scholarship. It adds significant new knowledge and understanding of the links and dissonances between the urban, the local, and the global to shed new light on existing and emerging cinematic cities throughout the world. – Jane Mills, University of New South WalesThis collection of essay provides a set of innovative, international perspectives on the relationships between cities and screen media in their contemporary, globally networked configurations. It is important reading for anybody with an interest in the dynamics and the tensions of urban culture today. – Andrew J. Webber, Cambridge UniversityOperating at the intersection of film studies, globalization studies, and urban studies to deliver a powerful, interdisciplinary re-assessment of the role of media and screens in shaping contemporary urban life, this volume addresses issues such as transnational mobility, digital technology, and social inequality…it makes important new connections between the ongoing transformation of cities worldwide and emerging trends in film, television, and new media. – Christoph Lindner, University of OregonThe editors and contributors of this volume are to be congratulated on producing such thought-provoking work on a complex contemporary topic. * Film International *Encourages us to take a multi-faceted view of the global media landscape illuminating a diversification of screen practices and reflections of contemporary cultural life. * Frames Cinema Journal *

Johan Andersson is lecturer in urban geography at King’s College London. Lawrence Webb is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sussex and author of The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City.