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Brunsdon, Charlotte. (2009) Introduction : screen Londons. Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol.6 (No.2). pp. 165-177. ISSN 1743-4521

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Abstract

Our aim, in editing the ‘London Issue’ of this journal, is to contribute to a conversation between scholars of British cinema and television, London historians and scholars of the cinematic city. In 2007, introducing the themed issue on ‘Space and Place in British Cinema and Television’, Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley observed that it would have been possible to fill the whole journal with essays about the representation of London. This issue does just that, responding to the increased interest in cinematic and, to a lesser extent, televisual, Londons, while also demonstrating the continuing fertility of the paradigms of ‘space and place’ for scholars of the moving image1. It includes a wide range of approaches to the topic of London on screen, with varying attention to British institutions of the moving image – such as Channel Four or the British Board of Film Classification – as well as to concepts such as genre, narration and memory. As a whole, the issue, through its juxtapositions of method and approach, shows something of the complexity of encounters between the terms ‘London’, ‘cinema’ and ‘television’ within British film and television studies.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	London (England) -- In motion pictures, London (England) -- On television
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of British Cinema and Television
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
ISSN:	1743-4521
Date:	August 2009
Volume:	Vol.6
Number:	No.2
Number of Pages:	13
Page Range:	pp. 165-177
Identification Number:	10.3366/E1743452109000855
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/3371