Cover illustration: Photograph by the author, Landi Raubenheimer, 2008. Hillbrow, Johannesburg.
The University of Johannesburg, South Africa has generously funded the Gold Open Access of 5 chapters within this monograph: the Introduction and Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 7.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Raubenheimer, Landi, 1981- author.
Title: District 9: Johannesburg as nostalgic dystopia / by Landi Raubenheimer.
Other titles: District nine
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025. | Series: Contemporary cinema, 1572-3070 ; volume 10 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Johannesburg, South Africa 2010: Wikus van de Merwe is an unimposing clerk working at the large company Multi National United (MNU). He has just been promoted and put in charge of relocating an alien refugee camp known as District 9 further away from the city. The aliens and their mother ship arrived above the city of Johannesburg in 1982, and in 2010 it still languishes above the cityscape.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024045469 | ISBN 9789004525436 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004710955 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: District 9 (Motion picture) | South Africa–Johannesburg–In motion pictures. | Nostalgia in motion pictures.
Classification: LCC PN1997.2.D584 R38 2025 | DDC 791.43/72–dc23/eng/20240930
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024045469
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ISSN 1572-3070
ISBN 978-90-04-52543-6 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-71095-5 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004710955
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