Imagining Multicultural London: Containment and Excess in 'Snatch'

Snatch is a comic book gangster film that can be seen to represent the backlash against perceived notions of political correctness in what is effectively a public schoolboy fantasy of working class life in East London. However the film also delineates the limits of this backlash in its depiction of minorities as either contained or as excess. In her talk Dr Rachel Garfield (University of Reading) will explore the tension between the genre, representation and Jewish identity. This talk is part of the lecture series 'FilmTalk: The Jewish Villian', developed in partnership with the Leo Baeck Institute London.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am52233?id=EVENT424594