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In the summer of 1902, respected American author Jack London (1876-1916), previously known for his descriptions of life during the Klondike Gold Rush, spent two months living 'down by the docks' in London's East End among the city's poorest residents. During this time he often slept in workhouses or on the streets, seeing first-hand how the impoverished struggled daily for adequate food, clothing and shelter while the rest of the city lived in relative prosperity - a prosperity which the author believed was gained at the expense of the poor. One of the earliest eyewitness descriptions of life in the slums of London, this book would influence later socially minded authors such as George Orwell. The text is also illustrated with photographs of the places and people mentioned, offering an important insight into the living conditions of the poor at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Poor --- Slums --- East End (London, England) --- Social conditions --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- East London (London, England)

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Housing --- -Affordable housing --- Homes --- Houses --- Housing needs --- Residences --- Slum clearance --- Urban housing --- City planning --- Dwellings --- Human settlements --- Social aspects --- -Housing

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A polycentric approach to the representation of slums in world cinemaNear to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a ‘planet of slums.’ But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world’s most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our ‘planet of slums’, exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predecessors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our ‘planet of slums’.Read the introduction to Slums on Screen for free (pdf)Key FeaturesTraces the global flows of film culture through emphasising the transnational impact of important film movementsFocuses on two important ‘cinematic megacities’ (Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai) to outline how global film cultural currents become modified according to a specific local contextCombines approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies to reconstruct world cinema’s ‘planet of slums’Adds a new perspective on cultural (world cinema) and social (cityward migration) globalisation processes"

Motion pictures --- Cities and towns in motion pictures. --- Slums. --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- History. --- History and criticism --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General.

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La favela, cet envers du décor de la « Cité merveilleuse », a beaucoup contribué à faire de Rio de Janeiro - et plus largement du Brésil - la terre de tous les contrastes. En ouvrant ce livre, le lecteur français pourrait donc à bon droit y voir une invitation au voyage dans un monde qui éveille sa curiosité, mais lui demeure en définitive étranger. Pourtant c'est plus encore au mouvement inverse, de l'exotique au familier, du lointain au proche, que cet ouvrage nous invite. Son propos n'est pas tant d'ajouter une nouvelle pierre à l'édifice déjà impressionnant des connaissances sur les favelas, ni d'en faire la synthèse, que d'en expliciter les conditions sociales de production. Car la favela s'« invente » au fil d'une histoire séculaire qui, du mythe d'origine en passant par le discours scientifique, mène contre toute attente à une consécration culturelle et médiatique. Analysant à la fois cette forme particulière d'habitat populaire et les réseaux d'acteurs et d'institutions qui en ont façonné l'image, Licia Valladares nous offre une contribution originale à l'histoire des sciences sociales brésiliennes, de la Première République à nos jours.

Squatter settlements --- Bidonvilles --- History --- Histoire --- Slums --- Sociology, Urban --- Poor --- History. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- bidonvilles --- pauvreté --- histoire --- logement --- sociologie urbaine --- Brésil --- représentation sociale