Abstract
ABSTRACTRecent scholarship on rap music has begun to consider this genre as a way of doing urban research focused more on the senses and mobilities in experiencing the city than describing the city as a stable and objective space. To present the functioning of this type of research in hip-hop films, I propose the term ‘sensuous homelands’ and analyse their role in two hip-hop films: American semi-biography of Eminem 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002) and a biopic of Polish hip-hop group Paktofonika (PFK) Jesteś Bogiem / You Are God (Leszek Dawid, 2012). Following both the view on rap music as a way of researching the city and Jean-Luc Godard's presentation of historical thinking as similar to love in his Éloge de l'amour/In Praise of Love (2001), I present both films as examples of sensuous, affectionate and empowering histories of everyday urban life.
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