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Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema

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Description for Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema paperback. Representation and negotiation of European identity Series: New Directions in National Cinemas. Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; APF; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.

Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on terror, the London Underground bombings, and the riots in Paris's banlieues. Opening a cinematic window onto this struggle, Loshitzky determines patterns in the representation and negotiation of European identity in several European films from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, and Michael Winterbottom's In This World, ... Read more and The Road to Guantanamo.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in National Cinemas
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221827
SKU
9780253221827
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About Yosefa Loshitzky
Yosefa Loshitzky is Professor of Film, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2002, The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci, and editor of Spielberg's Holocaust (IUP, 1997).

Reviews for Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema
This book is every bit as rewarding as the best recent work on European identity and the cinema . . . Essential.September 2010, vol. 48 No. 1
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Mapped and argued with equal expertise, Yosefa Loshitzky's . . . monograph is a valuable contribution to the literature on diaspora and migration in contemporary cinema.
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