Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:
 
Screening Strangers
Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema
Yosefa Loshitzky
 
"Loshitzky makes the crucial link between the political screening of new
immigrants by European governments and societies with the cinematic
screening of these immigrants by European directors, all the while offering
sensitive and thick readings of the films." ‹Hamid Naficy, author of An
Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
 
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 Frears¹s
Dirty Pretty Things, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, and Michael
Winterbottom's In This World, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo.
 
New Directions in National Cinemas
232 pp., 20 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35453-2 $65.00 / £49.00
paper 978-0-253-22182-7 $24.95 / £16.99
 
For more information, visit:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-22182
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For instructors outside the U.S.:
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in continental Europe, the UK, Ireland, Africa, and the Middle East. Please
see CAP¹s exam copy policy:
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For review copies: 
If you would like to consider reviewing the book please note that review
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Valerie McClanahan Kerschbaum
Publicist
Indiana University Press
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Book Launch: 
A book launch will be held in the Senate House, University of London, room
G22/26, 6-8 PM on May 28, 2010.  For further details contact:
 
Ms Eduarda Mota
Camões Fellow
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DN
Tel: (0044) (0) 20 7862 8959
Fax: (0044) (0) 20 7862 8762
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Please circulate widely,
 
 
Many thanks and apologies for cross posting,
 
 

Professor Yosefa Loshitzky

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of East London

Docklands Campus

University Way

London E16 2RD

UK

 

Tel: +44(0)20 8223 2176 or +44(0)20 8347 7899

 

Fax: +44(0)20 8223 3296 or +44(0)20 8347 7899

 

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http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/yosefaloshitzky/index.htm

 

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