Screening Strangers - Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo. Zusammenfassung Representation and negotiation of European identity Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe 1. Journeys of Hope to Fortress Europe: Cross-Border and Migratory Films 2. Cities of Hope: The Cinematic Cityscapes of Fortress Europe 3. The White Continent Is Dark: Migration and Miscegenation in Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998) 4. Intifada of the Banlieues: La Haine Revisited 5. The Camp Trilogy: Michael's Winterbottom's In This World, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo Afterword: Beyond Strangers and Post-Europe Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Yosefa Loshitzky
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2010
• EAN: 9780253221827
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22182-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Indiana University Press; New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin; New Directions in National Cinemas; Indiana University Press; New Directions in National Cin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet