District 9: Johannesburg as Nostalgic Dystopia

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District 9: Johannesburg as Nostalgic Dystopia is written by Landi Raubenheimer and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004710957 (ISBN 10) and 9789004710955 (ISBN 13).

The film District 9 made waves as an allegory of apartheid on the big screen, but it has not yet been given its rightful place as a landmark depiction within broader visual cultural studies of Johannesburg and cities in the Global South. In this book, Landi Raubenheimer argues that District 9’s portrayal of Johannesburg reverberates within a larger body of representations of the city, collectively shaping a unique visual ‘idiom’ for the post-apartheid city as nostalgic dystopia. Delving deeply into District 9, Raubenheimer brings to light the fascination that images of the city as nostalgic dystopia has held for filmmakers, photographers, viewers, and lovers of Johannesburg alike.