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Mladenova, Radmila: The ‘White’ Mask and the ‘Gypsy’ Mask in Film, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022 (Interdisciplinary Studies in Antigypsyism: Book series initiated by the Research Centre on Antigypsyism, Volume 3). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.989

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05/19/2022

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Radmila Mladenova

The ‘White’ Mask and the ‘Gypsy’ Mask in Film

Interdisciplinary Studies in Antigypsyism: Book series initiated by the Research Centre on Antigypsyism

The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the ‘gypsy’ phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of ‘gypsy’ representations in film since the birth of the medium providing a systematic film-theoretical analysis of their aesthetic and social functions. Based on a corpus of over 150 works from European and US cinema, it is shown that ‘gypsy’-themed feature films share the pattern of an ‘ethno-racial’ masquerade, irrespective of the place and time of their origin. The author thus expands the research, concentrated until now in the field of literature, with another art form, film, opening up new dimensions of (popular) cultural antigypsyism.

 

Radmila Mladenova is a literature and film scholar and works at Heidelberg University’s Research Centre on Antigypsyism. She graduated in English and American Studies at Sofia University, and Culture in the Process of Modernity at Mannheim University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of racism and art.

Media coverage

 

"Unbedingt lesenswert."

Helmut Prinzler, in: hhprinzler.de [14.07.2022]. 

Klaus-Michael Bogdal, Hans Richard Brittnacher und Peter Nestler, in: zentralrat.sintiundroma.de [12.6.2022].

Dávid Szőke, “Unveiling the ‘Gypsy’ Stereotypes“, in: Film International 21, 1/2 (2023), 163 - 166.

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Table of Contents
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Titelei
i-iv
Widmung
v
Table of Contents
vii–x
Preface
xi–xiii
Acknowledgements
xv–xvii
Abstract
xix–xx
1 Two Masks, One Cultural Consciousness. Theoretical Background
1–40
2 On the Film Corpus
41–49
3 The Literary Motif of Child-stealing ‘Gypsies’ and Silent Film
51–96
4 The Phenomenon of ‘Gypsy’-themed Films and Their Technology of Truth Production
97–115
5 Production Set-up ‘Gypsy’-themed Films Paralleled to Blackface Minstrelsy Shows
117–145
6 Content Analysis of the ‘Gypsy’ Mask or the ‘Gypsy’ Mask as a Cluster of Attributes
147–215
7 Formal Analysis of the ‘Gypsy’ Mask or the ‘Gypsy’ Mask as a Set of Cinematographic Conventions and Devices
217–257
8 Claims to Truth and Authentication Strategies
259–318
9 The Functions of the ‘Gypsy’ Masquerade Staged in Film
319–356
10 Annexes
357–370
11 List of Illustrations
371–378
12 Filmography
379–393
13 Bibliography
395–413
14 Index of Persons and Works
415–424

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