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The final chapter of the book offers a conclusion based around three related discussions. The first discussion concerns points of critical comparison between the seven British films studied thus far and a more recent, historically oriented film that is not part of the cycle: Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015). The second discussion revisits how the cycle of films examined here posit dissensus into the distribution of the urban sensible. The cycle of films does not actually re-distribute the sensible since cinema does not have the capacity to do this. Rather, through the aesthetic of urbanization they contribute to creating, the films enable ways of seeing the urban differently. The third discussion is focused upon the limits and possibilities of social realism as a cinematic aesthetic.
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Millington, G. (2016). Conclusion: Contra Brooklyn: Dissensus and the Limits of Realism. In: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47399-8_6
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