Slums on Screen

2016-04-26 Performing Arts

Author : Igor Krstic
Release : 2016-04-26
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Slums on Screen written by Igor Krstic. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?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's Slumdog 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 predeccesors, 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'.

Slums on Screen

2017 Cities and towns in motion pictures

Author : Igor Krstić
Release : 2017
Genre : Cities and towns in motion pictures
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Book Rating : 928/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Slums on Screen written by Igor Krstić. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.

Planet of Slums

2007-09-17 Business & Economics

Author : Mike Davis
Release : 2007-09-17
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Planet of Slums written by Mike Davis. This book was released on 2007-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.

I Live in the Slums

2020-05-01 Fiction

Author : Can Xue
Release : 2020-05-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 48X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book I Live in the Slums written by Can Xue. This book was released on 2020-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materiality—the love of physical things—and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue invites her readers into an immersive landscape that blends empirical fact and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and oblivion. She brings us to a place that is both readily familiar yet unmappable and can make us hyperaware of the inherent unreliability in our relationship to the world around us. Delightful, enchanting, and filled with secrets, Can Xue’s newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.

Bred by the Slums

2018-03-10 Fiction

Author : Ghost
Release : 2018-03-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Bred by the Slums written by Ghost. This book was released on 2018-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snatched up by Child Protective Services at the tender age of nine years old, SHEMAR was destined for a life of struggle and dysfunction. But those that counted him out had no way of measuring the heart of a young savage who's been BRED BY THE SLUMS. As he ages, young, beastly Shemar is motivated by more than just the shine and money that comes from hustling and murder in the hood. He's determined to rescue his younger sister, PURITY, from them hell she fell in to when they were separated by the system. With a cold heart and rescuing his sister from the dregs of foster care on his mind, Shemar forces his way into the slums of Cloverlane in Houston, Texas, where it is filled with low-life goons that refuse to fold or bow down to his gangsta. What unfolds is perverse, epic and breathtaking, as author GHOST spins an insatiable story of loyalty, greed, love, incense and calculated murder.

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