Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845197193)

The era of the German Occupation of France constituted, surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater, popular music and cinema. These works of art seem to be devoid of political impact. The widespread trend of unrealistic and fantastic art during this period is explained by some scholars as the artists escape from the omnipotent eye of German censorship. The purpose of the book is to show that, contrary to the accepted view, some of these films were intimately linked to the political situation. They convey the demonization of characters that, while not specifically presented as Jews nevertheless manifested anti-Semitic stereotypes of the Jew as ugly, rootless, low, hypocritical, immoral, cruel and power hungry. All five movies analysed (Les Inconnus dans la maison, dir. Henri Decoin, 1942; Les Visiteurs du Soir, dir. Marcel Carne, 1942; L'Eternel retour, dir. Jean Delannoy, 1943; Les Enfants du Paradis, dir. Marcel Carne, 1943) present characters not identified as
Jews but who exhibi


Author: Yehuda Moraly
ISBN-10: 1845197194
ISBN-13: 9781845197193
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d

About the Author

Yehuda (Jean-Bernard) Moraly is an associate professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His fields of research are mainly French theatre and film: Jean Genet, la vie ecrite (Editions de la Difference, 1988); Claudel metteur en scene (Presses Universitaires de Franche Comte, 1998); Le Maitre fou, Genet theoricien du theatre, Nizet, 2009). His L'uvre impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini (Le Manuscrit, 2013) deals mostly with Fellinis cinema. He is also a play-wright and his plays are published and produced in France and Israel.