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Author 1:Heinz Antor
Title:Contrast, Hybridity, and the Other: "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" as Contemporary Postcolonial Critique
Published in:European Cinema Inside Out: Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film
Edited by:Guido Rings, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas, eds.
Place:Heidelberg
Publisher:Winter
Year:2003
Vol./No./Date:
Pages:135-151
Location:TABB
Synopsis:Close reading of "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" with reference to postcolonial theory. Heinz Antor argues that the film uses both sharp contrasts and subtle hybridizations in order to tackle the issue of alterity in the contemporary metropolis.
Keyword 1:Hanif Kureishi
Keyword 2:colonialism
Keyword 3:Britain
Keyword 4:otherness
Keyword 5:Stephen Frears
Keyword 6:postcolonialism
Keyword 7:black British film
Film Reference 1:Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

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