Slums on Screen
World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
Author(s)
Krstić, Igor
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
6291Language
EnglishAbstract
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’.
Keywords
Performing Arts; FilmISBN
9781474406871Publisher
Edinburgh University PressPublisher website
https://www.euppublishing.com/Publication date and place
2016Grantor
Imprint
Edinburgh University PressClassification
Films, cinema
Television