1. Yosefa Loshitzky, /Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema / 2. /Journal for Cultural Research/ (14:1, January 2010): Catherine Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema 3. Reader/ Senior Lecturer in French (Leicester) ************************************** 1. Yosefa Loshitzky, Screening Strangers/: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema / "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 Frears's /Dirty Pretty Things,/ Mathieu Kassovitz's /La Haine,/ and Michael Winterbottom's /In This World, Code 46,/ and /The Road to Guantanamo./ ************************************** 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 ************************************** 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 -- 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 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org