Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain
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Beschreibung
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, anda cinema studies sensitised to the everyday experience of audiences.
Considers interwar Jewish life through the previously unutilised optic of film-going
Contributes fresh material on the history of migrant life in Britain, detailing how a distinct migrant community inhabited and remade the modern city
Examines a wholly new aspect of film reception and exhibition in the UK
Reveals new experiences of the rituals and routines of the everyday of this community
Features innovative methodologically utilising a range of empirical data including oral history interviews and a plethora of archival sources
Considers interwar Jewish life through the previously unutilised optic of film-going Contributes fresh material on the history of migrant life in Britain, detailing how a distinct migrant community inhabited and remade the modern city Examines a wholly new aspect of film reception and exhibition in the UK Reveals new experiences of the rituals and routines of the everyday of this community Features innovative methodologically utilising a range of empirical data including oral history interviews and a plethora of archival sources
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Gil Toffell
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Jewish cinema migrant communities in Britain Jewish communities Jewish cinema culture British-Jewish audiences Jewish film stars Propaganda and the public sphere post-war cinema post-war film reception Interwar Britain
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“His book will indeed be of use to ‘anyone interested in the interwar leisure landscape, the Jewish presence in modernity, and a cinema studies sensitised to the everyday experience of audiences’ (blurb).” (European Journal of Communication, Vol. 34 (1), 2019)
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