Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain (1st ed. 2018)

Synopsis

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain. It explores how pleasure, politics and communal solidarity intermingled in the cinemas of Jewish neighbourhoods, and how film was seen as a vessel through which Jewish communal concerns might be carried to a wider public. Addressing an array of related topics, this volume examines the lived expressive cultures of cinemas in Jewish areas and the ethnically specific films consumed within these sites; the reception of film stars as representations of a Jewish social body; and how an antisemitic canard that understood the cinema as a Jewish monopoly complicated its use as a base for anti-fascist activity. In shedding light on an unexplored aspect of British film reception and exhibition, Toffell provides a unique insight into the making of the modern city by migrant communities. The title will be of use to anyone interested in Britain’s interwar leisure landscape, the Jewish presence in modernity, and a cinema studies sensitised to the everyday experience of audiences.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781137569318

Related ISBNs:

9781137569301

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Date of Addition:

11/04/18

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Military, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies

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