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- Publications
- Influence
Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage
- Gil Toffell
- Political Science, Computer Science
- Int. J. E Politics
- 2012
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‘Come see, and hear, the mother tongue!’ Yiddish cinema in interwar London
- Gil Toffell
- Art
- 21 September 2009
The Jews Behind the Camera
- Gil Toffell
- History
- 2018
This chapter explores the related topics of Jewish involvement in film production and exhibition, and a Jewish concern with perceptions that the cinema was being utilised by Jews for propagandistic… Expand
‘And Israel watcheth over each’: The Jewish reception of Jew Suss (1934) in Inter-war Britain
- Gil Toffell
- History
- 1 October 2012
Films of Jewish Interest
- Gil Toffell
- Art
- 2018
This chapter provides an overview of the multiplicity of film texts that were marketed and exhibited to British-Jewish audiences as Jewish interest productions. These include Yiddish language films,… Expand
Epilogue: The Decline of a Jewish Cinema Culture
- Gil Toffell
- History
- 2018
In addition to a recap of the book’s trajectory chapter seven discusses both continuities and discontinuities in Jewish patterns of cinema-going and film reception in the post-war period. In regard… Expand
The Spaces and Places of Jewish Cinema Culture
- Gil Toffell
- History
- 2018
In the interwar era film-going became the pre-eminent urban leisure activity in Britain. This chapter examines the urban geography and sites of exhibition associated with a Jewish cinema culture. The… Expand
Cinema-going from Below: The Jewish film audience in interwar Britain
- Gil Toffell
- Political Science
- 2011
This article explores the constitution and experiential specificity of Jewish cinema audiences in interwar Britain. Drawing on a range of archival and oral history data, cinema-going in urban Jewish… Expand
British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
- Gil Toffell
- Art
- 2013
British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years. By Lawrence Napper. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009. 250 pp. $85.00 cloth.As snapshots of Britain's twentieth-century cultural… Expand
The Public Lives of Jewish Stars
- Gil Toffell
- Sociology
- 2018
In this chapter stages a transition away from an understanding of British-Jewish cinema culture that emphasises an introspective sphere of Jewish cultural activity, and towards a focus on Jewish… Expand
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