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TitleHome seeking: cinematic geographies of displacement in Meyer Levin's 'The Illegals'

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Simone Gigliotti

Call number940.5318/0051

Object number10211g

Place of publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States

PublisherNorthwestern University Press

Year of publication

2018

Physical descriptionpp169-194

MaterialArticle

ISBN9780810137660

NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies Vol XIII: new approaches to an integrated history of the Holocaust: social history, representation, theory.' pp169-194

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Discusses the representation of Jewish displaced persons after World War II in Meyer Levin's film 'The Illegals'. It discusses reasons for the film's waning relevance, particularly affter the 1960 success of the film 'Exodus'. It is suggested that the study of the Holocaust as both a migration and displacement narrative, in the context of the current European refugee crises, is valid and overdue.

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