With a detailed range of approaches, this new collection investigates how cinematic narratives can and have been used to portray different political 'threats' and 'dangers'.

Including a range of chapters with a contemporary focus, it studies issues such as:

• how the geopolitical world has been constructed through film
• how cinema can provide explanatory narratives in periods of cultural and political anxiety, uneasiness and uncertainty.

Examining the ways in which film impacts upon popular understandings of national identity and...

The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.

This volume offers a critical introduction to the changing geographies of global development. It moves away from the traditional approach of providing descriptive accounts of Third World geographical issues and instead finds alternative geography of development theories and practices, which show that development has been a pain-staking, protracted and fiercely contested process. By examining the progress towards development at the beginning of the 21st century, it raises issues of debt and democracy, but also looks at the recent wave of anti-capitalist protests and global financial summits....