Urbanization and the migrant in British cinema: spectres of the city

This volume examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s.

It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanisation based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city.

A stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding urban fabric, it offers an alternative to the 'cultural cityism' of many other films about migration.

The author demonstrates that this particular film cycle offers a rare, sustained consideration of the travails and struggles for urban life by migrants beyond and without the city.