Drawing on a number of paradigmatic works of art, the book explores the motif of 'gypsy' child-theft and its visualisations. The analytical focus is on the colour coding of bodies in texts and images and their racialised/anti-gypsy uses....

The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the ¿gypsy¿ phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of ¿gypsy¿ representations in film since the birth of the medium providing a...