Screening strangers : migration and diaspora in contemporary European cinema / Yosefa Loshitzky.

Author/Creator:

Loshitzky, Yosefa.

Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Series:

New directions in national cinemas
New directions in national cinemas

Format/Description:

Book
x, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Motion pictures -- Europe.
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
Minorities in motion pictures.
Immigrants in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.

Contents:

Introduction: screening strangers in fortress Europe
Journeys of hope to fortress Europe: cross-border and migratory films
Cities of hope: the cinematic cityscapes of fortress Europe
The white continent is dark: migration and miscegenation in Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998)
Intifada of the banlieues: La Haine revisited
The camp trilogy: Michael's Winterbottom's In this world, Code 46, and The road to Guantanamo
Afterword: beyond strangers and post-Europe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253354532 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253354536 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253221827 (pbk. : alk. paper)
025322182X (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

326487044

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