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Introduction: Cinema and Urban Society

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This chapter begins by considering the importance of cultural questions in the critical study of planetary urbanization. After introducing the aims of this study, the chapter provides a brief sketch of each of the seven films analysed here. This is followed by a discussion of realism and a short summary of the key arguments made in this book. The chapter then introduces the notion of spectrality, focusing in particular on how the ‘spectre of the city’ haunts the films analysed here. The chapter closes by providing an outline of the structure of the book.

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Millington, G. (2016). Introduction: Cinema and Urban Society. In: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8_1

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