In this Book
- Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: New Directions in National Cinemas
summary
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, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780253001061
Related ISBN(s)
9780253221827
MARC Record
OCLC
794700763
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No