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Jewish identity in French cinema (1950-2010) / by Serge Bokobza.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bokobza, Serge, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--France.
- Motion pictures.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book examines the expression of a Jewish identity in French films and the characteristics used by filmmakers to portray this nebulous concept in movies produced after the Shoah and World War II. Throughout a sixty-year span, French directors struggled to define Jewish identity and a correlation with the larger question of French national identity. The study delves into the larger question of Jewish identity as characterised in works of cinematic fiction in accordance with the history of the Jews of France, using the centrality of the emancipation paradigm of 1791 and the theoretical frame
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8938-5
- OCLC:
- 943585567
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