Face to face with the Muslim “other”: European cinematic responses to Al-Qaeda

dc.contributor.authorCaoduro, Elenaen
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-02T14:50:14Z
dc.date.available2012-08-02T14:50:14Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe bombings on March 11, 2004 in Madrid and on July 7, 2005 in London brought terror to the heart of Europe and amplified the feelings of fear, disbelief and suspicion developed as a consequence of 9/11 trauma. This article departs from Hollywood discourses on international terrorism to investigate how European cinema reflected upon these tragedies. Focusing on the films Fremder Freund (The Friend, Elmar Fischer, 2003)and London River (Rachid Bouchareb, 2009), it outlines the peculiarities of European cinema in dealing with international terrorism and thus analyses the representation of Islamic fundamentalism and more generally, Muslim communities. The films stimulate the public debate about contemporary society and the role of British and German institutions in developing “home-grown” terrorists. The article argues that these films avoid any explicit attempts of commemorating and memorialising these tragic events, but they contextualise the attacks engaging with issues of multiculturalism rather than commenting on the problem of international crime and terrorism.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationCaoduro, E. (2011) 'Face to face with the Muslim ‘other’: European cinematic responses to Al-Qaeda', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 1 (Summer 2011). https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.1.08en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.1.08
dc.identifier.endpage12en
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/649
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue%201/ArticleCaoduro.htmlen
dc.rights© 2011, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen
dc.subject.lcshTerrorismen
dc.subject.lcshMulticulturalism--Europeen
dc.subject.lcshMulticulturalism in motion picturesen
dc.subject.lcshTerrorism in motion picturesen
dc.titleFace to face with the Muslim “other”: European cinematic responses to Al-Qaedaen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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