Slums on Screen
World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
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Author(s)
Krstić, Igor
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
From Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krstić outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our ‘planet of slums’.
Keywords
Performing Arts; FilmISBN
9781474406871Publisher
Edinburgh University PressPublisher website
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2016Imprint
Edinburgh University PressClassification
Films, cinema
Television