Loshitzky, Yosefa.

Screening strangers : migration and diaspora in contemporary European cinema / Yosefa Loshitzky. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010. - x, 214 p. : ill. ; - New directions in national cinemas .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-200) and index.

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.

9780253354532 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253221827 (pbk. : alk. paper)


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

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