'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.'
Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Introduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city – Keith B. Wagner
1 ‘God is everywhere!’: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric Pressburger’s Miracle in Soho – Jingan MacPherson Young
2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s – Kevin M. Flanagan
3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey – Paul Newland
4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London – Malini Guha
5 ‘Where I come from, we eat places like this for breakfast’: Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer as transnational representation of local London – Claire Monk
Bollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence – Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani
7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles – Stephanie Dennison
8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London – Uchenna Onuzulike
9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting – Victor Fan
10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece – Lawrence Webb
11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the digital happening in globalising London – Michael A. Unger and Keith B. Wagner
12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River – Ana Virginia López Fuentes
13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men – Mónica Martín
Epilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit – Charlotte Brunsdon
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