{"id":3819,"date":"2009-12-12T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T22:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2009-12-12T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T22:43:16","slug":"for-venus-smiles-not-in-a-house-of-tears-interethnic-relations-in-european-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"`For Venus smiles not in a house of tears&#8217;: Interethnic relations in European cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/6\/1\/55\" target=\"_blank\">`For Venus smiles not in a house of tears&#8217;: Interethnic relations in European cinema<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European Journal of Cultural Studies<br \/>\n2003<br \/>\nVol. 6, No. 1<br \/>\npages 55-74<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1177\/1367549403006001470<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:a.smelik@let.kun.nl \" target=\"_blank\">Anneke Smelik<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Nijmegen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, several European filmmakers addressed the Romeo and Juliet motif of `impossible love&#8217; in the context of multiculturalism. A heterosexual love affair between people of different ethnic backgrounds allows filmmakers to address issues of racism and deconstruct racial stereotypes. In the films discussed in this article, the tragic love affairs point to the unwillingness of European countries to become pluralistic and multiethnic societies. <strong>Some films have attempted to represent interethnic love relations more hopefully, celebrating happy endings of mixed race couples.<\/strong> The success of such films may indicate that the genre of comedy has won over the tragedy of the Romeo and Juliet topos in cinematic representations of interethnic love relations. Perhaps European cinema is ready to embrace constructions of European identity as hybrid, diverse and multiple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>`For Venus smiles not in a house of tears&#8217;: Interethnic relations in European cinema European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003 Vol. 6, No. 1 pages 55-74 DOI: 10.1177\/1367549403006001470 Anneke Smelik University of Nijmegen In the 1990s, several European filmmakers addressed the Romeo and Juliet motif of `impossible love&#8217; in the context of multiculturalism. A heterosexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,8,394],"tags":[1494,987],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-anneke-smelik","tag-european-journal-of-cultural-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}