List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part I

London as Archive

1. ‘The BFI: London's gateway to Cinema and Media studies for all’: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes, and Emma Smart

2. Millennium Mills: London’s last post-industrial ruin and its media history and industry

3. Sherlock Holmes, Archive London: Phantasms of Authenticity at the Festival of Britain, 1951

4. Watching the Detectives: Poe, Luther, and the Surveilled City

5. Adaptations and Intertexts: How Disney Imagines London in ‘Mary Poppins’ and Saving Mr. Banks

6. The Rough and the Smooth: Touching and the Tactile in British London Films of the 1920s

Part II

London Locations

7. London Film-Location Walking Tours: Labouring at the intersection of text, location and place

8. ‘Rivers Can Be Very Sinister Places’: Alfred Hitchcock Takes a Satirical, Sinister London Crime Cruise in Frenzy

9. Is London Real? The Actual/Virtual/Fantastic City from Blow-Up to Bandersnatch

10. London and the carnivalesque in Catastrophe (Channel 4, 2015-2019), and Fleabag (BBC, 2016 ? 2019)

Part III

London and Beyond

11. Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and The Symbolic Diversity of Location

12. Invisible London: Unveiling the Immigrant Landscape in The Receptionist

13. Piccadilly Lights as Pandemic Portal? The Case of Circa Art’s Public Projection Series

Afterword: Peak London: the spectacular and the banal in the ABC decade