1. Yosefa Loshitzky, /Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in
Contemporary European Cinema
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2. /Journal for Cultural Research/ (14:1, January 2010): Catherine
Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema
3. Reader/ Senior Lecturer in French (Leicester)
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1. Yosefa Loshitzky, Screening Strangers/: Migration and Diaspora in
Contemporary European Cinema
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"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
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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./
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2. Journal for Cultural Research (14:1, January 2010):Catherine
Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema, Edited by Richard Rushton and
Lynsey Russell-Watts
'Introduction': Richard Rushton and Lynsey Russell-Watts
'Neither a Wife nor a Whore: Deconstructing Feminine Icons in Catherine
Breillat's /Une vieille maîtresse': /Douglas Keesey
/À ma soeur!:/ Erotic Bodies and the Primal Scene Reconfigured': Emily
Fox-Kales
'Contested Interactions: Watching Catherine Breillat's Scenes of Sexual
Violence': Catherine Wheatley
'Sexual Cartographies: Mapping Subjectivity in the Cinema of Catherine
Breillat': Adrienne Angelo
'Desublimating Desire: Courtly Love and Catherine Breillat': Lisa Coulthard
'Marginalized Males? Men, Masculinity and Catherine Breillat': Lynsey
Russell-Watts
'Acknowledgement and Unknown Women: The Films of Catherine Breillat':
Richard Rushton
'Breillat's Time': Sarah Cooper
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3. Reader/ Senior Lecturer in French, School of Modern Languages,
University of Leicester Ref: AHL00042
Applications are invited for a Readership / Senior Lectureship in French
in the School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester. Applicants
will have extensive research and teaching experience which is supported
by a relevant PhD. The successful candidate will have a native or
near-native command of French. The person appointed will have a strong
commitment to teaching and evidence of sustained research achievement.
Research interests should focus on contemporary cultural studies,
including film and literary theory. Closing date for applications:
midnight on 6 April 2010. The post is available from September 2010.
Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Sharon
Wood by email on [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]> or by telephone on 0116
252 2683. For further information and to apply on-line, please visit the
following website: http://www2.le.ac.uk/jobs
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Phil Powrie
Professor of Cinema Studies
School of Modern Languages
Jessop West
University of Sheffield
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA Email: [log in to unmask]
Studies in French Cinema: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/home.htm
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
http://www.ScreenSite.org
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