Title: Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1474425933
ISBN 13: 9781474425933
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), 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'.

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Igor Krstić is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Stuttgart and in the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has published on national, world and transnational cinema, documentary film and film philosophy. He is the author of Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

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