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Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction. Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs; Bibliography; Section I: Suburban Realisms; Chapter 2: `Society Stinks:́ Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Dis-Locations: Mapping the Banlieue; Generic Location? Banlieue Film; Girl/Hood; Conflict Zones; Shifting Suburban Sites; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia; Three Films About the Suburbs; Bibliography; Section II: Suburban Nations
Chapter 5: Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social RealismUnderstanding British Social Housing; New Labour and the Problematisation of Council Estates; Contemporary Representations of Social Housing; Attack the Block as Radical Verisimilitude; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 6: The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema; Introduction; Nature or Nurture: The Urban or Natural Question; Surfers Paradise: The Pleasure Dome; Bondi Beach: The Underbelly; Gritty Realism, `Sandy ́Urbanism; Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis ́FilmsMotivation and Domesticity in Victoria Day and Natasha; Filming Natasha in Suburban Toronto; Notes; Bibliography; Primary; Secondary; Further Reading; Section III: Slumurbia and Social Order; Chapter 8: The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrichś Documentary Triptych; A Living Landscape; The Meta-modern Subject; Subjective Realism: The Meta-modern Film-maker; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9: System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood; Introduction; Dharavi: What It Is and What It Is Not!
Slum Gala in Foreign ProductionsDesi Ghetto: Dharavi Through an Indian Lens; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Outskirts of Reason: The Dream in Días de papel and Chircales; The Filmed City; Meeting the Suburb; Filming the Suburb; Vigo, Buñuel and the Revolution; The Nightmare and the Hope; Questioning the Centre; Notes; Bibliography; Section IV: Suburban Genres; Chapter 11: Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris; From Urbanites Invading the Banlieue to the Changing Connotation of the Cinematic Journey Trope
The Centre `Killing ́the Old Banlieue: Imposed Urban Developments as the Root of the Reversal in Cinematic RepresentationsThe New Architectural Form of the Social Housing Estate Engenders the Cinematic Downfall of the Suburbs; From Endangered to Danger: The Negative Connotation of the Banlieue and Its Inhabitants as a Threat to the Urban Centre; The Filmic Medium as Document of Changing Spatial Relationships and Terrain for Contestation; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 12: The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful; Lake Mungo: `The Saddest Thinǵ
Chapter 5: Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social RealismUnderstanding British Social Housing; New Labour and the Problematisation of Council Estates; Contemporary Representations of Social Housing; Attack the Block as Radical Verisimilitude; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 6: The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema; Introduction; Nature or Nurture: The Urban or Natural Question; Surfers Paradise: The Pleasure Dome; Bondi Beach: The Underbelly; Gritty Realism, `Sandy ́Urbanism; Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis ́FilmsMotivation and Domesticity in Victoria Day and Natasha; Filming Natasha in Suburban Toronto; Notes; Bibliography; Primary; Secondary; Further Reading; Section III: Slumurbia and Social Order; Chapter 8: The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrichś Documentary Triptych; A Living Landscape; The Meta-modern Subject; Subjective Realism: The Meta-modern Film-maker; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9: System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood; Introduction; Dharavi: What It Is and What It Is Not!
Slum Gala in Foreign ProductionsDesi Ghetto: Dharavi Through an Indian Lens; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Outskirts of Reason: The Dream in Días de papel and Chircales; The Filmed City; Meeting the Suburb; Filming the Suburb; Vigo, Buñuel and the Revolution; The Nightmare and the Hope; Questioning the Centre; Notes; Bibliography; Section IV: Suburban Genres; Chapter 11: Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris; From Urbanites Invading the Banlieue to the Changing Connotation of the Cinematic Journey Trope
The Centre `Killing ́the Old Banlieue: Imposed Urban Developments as the Root of the Reversal in Cinematic RepresentationsThe New Architectural Form of the Social Housing Estate Engenders the Cinematic Downfall of the Suburbs; From Endangered to Danger: The Negative Connotation of the Banlieue and Its Inhabitants as a Threat to the Urban Centre; The Filmic Medium as Document of Changing Spatial Relationships and Terrain for Contestation; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 12: The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful; Lake Mungo: `The Saddest Thinǵ