Slums on screen: world cinema and the planet of slums

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'

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Main Author: Krstić, Igor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2016
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary: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'
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Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 283 pages)

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