Global London on Screen

Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Professor at Sungshin Women's University and an Affiliated Researcher at LUT UniversityRoland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London

• Introduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city – Keith B. Wagner1 ‘God is everywhere!’: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric Pressburger’s Miracle in Soho – Jingan MacPherson Young2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s – Kevin M. Flanagan3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey – Paul Newland4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London – Malini Guha5 ‘Where I come from, we eat places like this for breakfast’: Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer as transnational representation of local London – Claire MonkBollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence – Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles – Stephanie Dennison8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London – Uchenna Onuzulike9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting – Victor Fan10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece – Lawrence Webb11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the digital happening in globalising London – Michael A. Unger and Keith B. Wagner12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River – Ana Virginia López Fuentes13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men – Mónica MartínEpilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit – Charlotte BrunsdonIndex

'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.'Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University