Slums

Deep Dives, no. 2, vol. 6April 16, 2021<April 16, 2021

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth …”: How Digital Media Revisit our Images of Slums

by Igor Krstić

Igor Krstić discusses the ethics and politics of representing slums in contemporary film, television, and video games, from computer-generated imagery of Victorian London to documentaries about Mumbai.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4November 1, 2019<January 28, 2023

The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories

by Ranjani Mazumdar

In this third and final part of our Slums series, Ranjani Mazumdar discusses two recent films that have created "embodied cartographies" of Mumbai's Dharavi.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 17, 2019<January 28, 2023

The Gamification and Domestication of Slum Voyeurism: From Poverty Porn to Aesthetics of Precarity

by Elmo Gonzaga

In the second part of our Slum series, Elmo Gonzaga probes the ethics of journalistic, cinematic, and gamified images of informal settlements in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4October 15, 2019<January 28, 2023

The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema

by Igor Krstić

How have slums been represented onscreen? In the first installment of a three-part series, Igor Krstić considers the history of the cinematic representation of slums and examines the capacity of visual media to portray the complex relationships between capitalism and urban development.