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Dear all,
it's my pleasure to invite you to the presentation of the book “Screening
Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema”, by
Prof Yosefa Loshitzky (East London University).
The presentation will take place at the UCL Italian Department the 2nd of
February at 5pm. Prof. David Forgacs will chair the session.
The event is part of the research seminars organized by the UCL Italian
Department. All welcome!
For further information please contact me: [log in to unmask]
All best,
Federica
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“Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema”
Chair: Prof. David Forgacs
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
5.00 - 7.00pm
Italian Seminar Room, Foster Court 351
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.
Find details of teh book here:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=176733
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Dr Federica Mazzara
Teaching Fellow
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UCL
Department of Italian/SELCS
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Gower St
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
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