03341nam 22005415 450 991030001870332120231218153728.01-137-56931-X10.1057/978-1-137-56931-8(CKB)4100000007110821(MiAaPQ)EBC5592916(DE-He213)978-1-137-56931-8(EXLCZ)99410000000711082120181103d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain /by Gil Toffell1st ed. 2018.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) illustrations1-137-56930-1 1. Introduction -- 2. The Spaces and Places of Jewish Cinema Culture -- 3. Films of Jewish Interest -- 4. The Public Lives of Jewish Stars -- 5. The Jews Behind the Camera -- 6. Jewish Defence -- 7. Epilogue – The Decline of a Jewish Cinema Culture.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.Motion pictures—HistoryJudaism and cultureEthnology—EuropeWorld War, 1939-1945Film Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413070Jewish Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A6020British Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411050History of World War II and the Holocausthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717110Motion pictures—History.Judaism and culture.Ethnology—Europe.World War, 1939-1945.Film History.Jewish Cultural Studies.British Culture.History of World War II and the Holocaust.941.004924Toffell Gilauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut988774BOOK9910300018703321Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain2260866UNINA