Entre Nous, Female Eroticism, and the Narrative of Jewish Erasure

ABSTRACT

Although grounded in wartime and immediate postwar contexts, Entre Nous has been critiqued primarily for its portrayal of ambiguous female eroticism to the exclusion of how such eroticism is linked via the film's narrative structure to the Jewish Holocaust, the French collaboration, and U.S. transnationalist hegemony. This paper takes up an examination and explication of this narratological linkage as well as theorizes the determinants of its persistent critical ignoring.

Key Words:

• Lesbian film
• anti-Semitism
• Judeo-Christianity
• Holocaust
• French feminism
• allegory
• narrative theory
• hermeneutics
• ta-nakh
• Jewish history
• transnationalism

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Terri Ginsberg

Terri Ginsberg has taught film and literature at New York University, Rutgers University, and The New School. Her publications include Perspectives on German Cinema (co-edited with Kirsten Moana Thompson) and “Holocaust Film Criticism and the Politics of ([Judeo-]Christian) Phenomenology' (in the Routledge reader Violence and American Film).