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London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity.
Sommario
List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction
Part I
London as Archive
1. 'The BFI: London's gateway to Cinema and Media studies for all': Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes, and Emma Smart
2. Millennium Mills: London's last post-industrial ruin and its media history and industry
3. Sherlock Holmes, Archive London: Phantasms of Authenticity at the Festival of Britain, 1951
4. Watching the Detectives: Poe,
Luther, and the Surveilled City
5. Adaptations and Intertexts: How Disney Imagines London in 'Mary Poppins' and
Saving Mr. Banks6. The Rough and the Smooth: Touching and the Tactile in British London Films of the 1920s
Part II
London Locations
7. London Film-Location Walking Tours: Labouring at the intersection of text, location and place
8. 'Rivers Can Be Very Sinister Places': Alfred Hitchcock Takes a Satirical, Sinister London Crime Cruise in
Frenzy 9. Is London Real? The Actual/Virtual/Fantastic City from
Blow-Up to
Bandersnatch10. London and the carnivalesque in
Catastrophe (Channel 4, 2015-2019), and
Fleabag (BBC, 2016 - 2019)
Part III
London and Beyond
11. Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and The Symbolic Diversity of Location
12. Invisible London: Unveiling the Immigrant Landscape in
The Receptionist13. Piccadilly Lights as Pandemic Portal? The Case of Circa Art's Public Projection Series
Afterword: Peak London: the spectacular and the banal in the ABC decade
Info autore
Elizabeth Evans is Professor of Screen Cultures at the University of Nottingham. Her research examines the intersection of screen audiences, screen industries and technology studies. She is the author of
Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media and Daily Life (2011) and
Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture (2020) and co-editor of
Participations: The Online Journal of Audience and Reception Studies.
Malini Guha is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. As a contributing editor for the online journal
Mediapolis, she writes a regular column, 'Screening Canada', where she explores an aspect of Canada's mediated place-making in relation to recent issues concerning its global role and domestic negotiation of racial and ethnic difference.
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London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity.
