Elizabeth Ezra
Biographic Data
| ID | 483746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Ezra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ezra |
| SIGNATURE | EZRA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2877-9565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to Special Issue
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Shoe Reels
Shoe Reels
Out of bounds
Ruben Östlund's The Square and Michael Haneke's Happy End , both released in 2017, skirt around the edges of immigration in Europe. Both address the question of who belongs and who does not in terms of boundaries – not only the boundaries that determine where one country ends and another begins but also (and especially) those that determine who is a member of civil society. These films explore how the bounds of what is considered appropriate are …
The screen test 1915-1930
This article examines the emergence of the screen test as a cultural phenomenon during the silent era in the USA and Europe and its role in the development of the star system. The lore that grew up around the screen test almost from its inception held out the possibility for members of the public to cross a threshold into the rarefied world of celebrity. The screen test itself is situated in the liminal space not only between audience and actor, …
Posthuman memory and the re(f)use economy
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2009 film Micmacs à tire-larigot, a scathing critique of the global arms industry, depicts a ragtag bunch of misfits who live beneath a refuse dump and give a new lease of life to discarded objects, endowing them with what might be called ‘reuse value’. Unlike exchange value, which obscures the past labour that produced the commodity, reuse value enfolds history into an object, reflecting the past use to which it was put, and…
A portrait of the twenty-first century
International audience
Hidden in plain sight
This analysis of Caché/Hidden(Michael Haneke, 2005) examines how the film's depiction of a world of material privilege corroded by psychic unease opens up broader questions of the political deployment of fear and paranoid fantasy, and the dishonesities and displacements of postcolonialism
The case of the phantom fetish
This article examines the recurring image of the severed head in Louis Feuillade's serial film Les Vampires (1915-16), linking it to the anxieties and traumas engendered by the First World War. In particular, it argues for a reconsideration of the image's emblematic status as a symbol of castration, and suggests that the castration complex itself may be best understood as a fetish, acting as a decoy for other losses that cannot be acknowledged ov…
Ambivalent Desire
Journal Article Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-age France Get access Elizabeth Ezra Elizabeth Ezra University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/18.2.248 Published: 01 June 2004
The Death of an Icon
Amid the furore surrounding Amélie ’s digitally enhanced Paris, what has been overlooked is the fact that the film self-consciously thematises evolving technologies of vision and the modes of temporality they deploy, using the death of Princess Diana as the pretext for a meditation on the nature of iconicity. Amélie may be of the digital age, but it continually points nostalgically to the indexical, privileging the immediacy of human contact over…
The latest attraction
The Colonial Unconscious
At a time when the French nation is deeply divided over issues of immigration and cultural diversity, Elizabeth Ezra invites the reader to examine the legacy of interwar French colonialism--specifically, its "colonial unconscious"--which, she argues, continues to shape the terms of the contemporary debate on race, multiculturalism, and national unity. The "colonial unconscious" refers to the set of ambivalent, primarily unconscious beliefs, repre…
The Colonial Unconscious
France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the avant-garde writings of René Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In her lively book, Elizabeth Ezra interprets a fascinating array of cultural products to uncover what she terms the "colonial uncons…
Cats in the 'Hood
Silents are golden
The Sacrificial Difference
Anlyse de la thematique de l'Etoile au front, basee selon l'A. sur les personnages des jumeaux et de la metisse, et construite autour d'une dynamique reposant sur les notions de ressemblances, de differences et d'assimilation reliees en l'article au fonctionnement sacrificiel tel qu'il a ete modelise par Rene Girard
The Colonial Look
The Forces of Reproduction
Alice Yaeger Kaplan Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986)
Hidden in plain sight
This analysis of Caché/Hidden(Michael Haneke, 2005) examines how the film's depiction of a world of material privilege corroded by psychic unease opens up broader questions of the political deployment of fear and paranoid fantasy, and the dishonesities and displacements of postcolonialism
The Death of an Icon
Amid the furore surrounding Amélie ’s digitally enhanced Paris, what has been overlooked is the fact that the film self-consciously thematises evolving technologies of vision and the modes of temporality they deploy, using the death of Princess Diana as the pretext for a meditation on the nature of iconicity. Amélie may be of the digital age, but it continually points nostalgically to the indexical, privileging the immediacy of human contact over…
The Colonial Look
A portrait of the twenty-first century
International audience
Silents are golden
The Forces of Reproduction
Alice Yaeger Kaplan Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986)
The Colonial Look
Silents are golden
The Sacrificial Difference
Anlyse de la thematique de l'Etoile au front, basee selon l'A. sur les personnages des jumeaux et de la metisse, et construite autour d'une dynamique reposant sur les notions de ressemblances, de differences et d'assimilation reliees en l'article au fonctionnement sacrificiel tel qu'il a ete modelise par Rene Girard
Cats in the 'Hood
The Colonial Unconscious
France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the avant-garde writings of René Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In her lively book, Elizabeth Ezra interprets a fascinating array of cultural products to uncover what she terms the "colonial uncons…
The latest attraction
The Colonial Unconscious
At a time when the French nation is deeply divided over issues of immigration and cultural diversity, Elizabeth Ezra invites the reader to examine the legacy of interwar French colonialism--specifically, its "colonial unconscious"--which, she argues, continues to shape the terms of the contemporary debate on race, multiculturalism, and national unity. The "colonial unconscious" refers to the set of ambivalent, primarily unconscious beliefs, repre…
Ambivalent Desire
Journal Article Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-age France Get access Elizabeth Ezra Elizabeth Ezra University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/18.2.248 Published: 01 June 2004
The Death of an Icon
Amid the furore surrounding Amélie ’s digitally enhanced Paris, what has been overlooked is the fact that the film self-consciously thematises evolving technologies of vision and the modes of temporality they deploy, using the death of Princess Diana as the pretext for a meditation on the nature of iconicity. Amélie may be of the digital age, but it continually points nostalgically to the indexical, privileging the immediacy of human contact over…
The case of the phantom fetish
This article examines the recurring image of the severed head in Louis Feuillade's serial film Les Vampires (1915-16), linking it to the anxieties and traumas engendered by the First World War. In particular, it argues for a reconsideration of the image's emblematic status as a symbol of castration, and suggests that the castration complex itself may be best understood as a fetish, acting as a decoy for other losses that cannot be acknowledged ov…
Hidden in plain sight
This analysis of Caché/Hidden(Michael Haneke, 2005) examines how the film's depiction of a world of material privilege corroded by psychic unease opens up broader questions of the political deployment of fear and paranoid fantasy, and the dishonesities and displacements of postcolonialism
A portrait of the twenty-first century
International audience
Posthuman memory and the re(f)use economy
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2009 film Micmacs à tire-larigot, a scathing critique of the global arms industry, depicts a ragtag bunch of misfits who live beneath a refuse dump and give a new lease of life to discarded objects, endowing them with what might be called ‘reuse value’. Unlike exchange value, which obscures the past labour that produced the commodity, reuse value enfolds history into an object, reflecting the past use to which it was put, and…
The screen test 1915-1930
This article examines the emergence of the screen test as a cultural phenomenon during the silent era in the USA and Europe and its role in the development of the star system. The lore that grew up around the screen test almost from its inception held out the possibility for members of the public to cross a threshold into the rarefied world of celebrity. The screen test itself is situated in the liminal space not only between audience and actor, …
Shoe Reels
Shoe Reels
Out of bounds
Ruben Östlund's The Square and Michael Haneke's Happy End , both released in 2017, skirt around the edges of immigration in Europe. Both address the question of who belongs and who does not in terms of boundaries – not only the boundaries that determine where one country ends and another begins but also (and especially) those that determine who is a member of civil society. These films explore how the bounds of what is considered appropriate are …
Introduction to Special Issue
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Art (17 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art history (7 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)