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Book SynopsisRepresentation and negotiation of European identity
Trade ReviewThis book is every bit as rewarding as the best recent work on European identity and the cinema . . . Essential.September 2010, vol. 48 No. 1
* Choice *
Mapped and argued with equal expertise, Yosefa Loshitzky's . . . monograph is a valuable contribution to the literature on diaspora and migration in contemporary cinema.
* www.intellectbooks.co.uk *
[T]his is a valuable book for those interested in the study of migration and film. Vol. 24, No. 1
* Journal of Refugee Studies *
[T]his is a stimulating and informative survey that raises many questions about the political attitudes that underpin the broad European consensus on questions of immigration.2011
* Journal of European Studies *
[This is] a particularly relevant and even prescient publication, a most welcome addition to the growing number of books centred around the ever-perplexing premise of unravelling societal and by extension cinematic identity. 8/8/2011
* alphavillejournal.com *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
