Screening integration : recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France / edited and with an introduction by Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Durmelat, Sylvie.

Swamy, Vinay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Africans in motion pictures.

Immigrants in motion pictures.

Social integration in motion pictures.

Assimilation (Sociology) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

250 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]

Summary:

North African immigrants, once confined to France's social and national life. Similarly, descendants of immigrants from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have gained mainstream recognition as film makers and as the subject of films. The first collective volume on this topic, Screening Integration offers a sustained critical analysis of this cinema. In particular, contributors evaluate how Maghrebi films have come to participate in, promote, and, at the same time, critique France integration. In the process, these essays reflect on the conditions that allowed for the burgeoning of this cinema in the first place, as well as on the social changes the films delineate.

Screening Integration brings together established scholars in the fields of postcolonial, Francophone, and film studies to address the latest developments in this cinematic production. These authors explore the emergence of various genres that recast the sometimes fossilized idea of ethnic difference. Screening Integration provides a much-needed reference for those interested in comprehending the complex shifts in twenty-first-century French cinema and in the multicultural social formations that have become an integral part of contemporary France in the new millennium. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy

From "Ghettoes" to Globalization: Situating Maghrebi-French Filmmakers / Alec G. Hargreaves

Hidden Islam: The Role of the Religious in Beur and Banlieue Cinema / Michel Cadé

"Et si on allait en Algérie?" Home, Displacement, and the Myth of Return in Recent Journey Films by Maghrebi-French and North African Émigré Directors / Will Higbee

Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued / Hakim Abderrezak

Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema / Sylvie Durmelat

Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? / Mireille Rosello

Class Acts: Education, Gender, and Integration in Recent French Cinema / Carrie Tarr

Don't Touch the White Woman: La journée de la jupe or Feminism at the Service of Islamophobia / Geneviève Sellier

A Space of Their Own? Women in Maghrebi-French Filmmaking / Patricia Geesey

Sexual/Social (Re)Orientations: Cross-Dressing, Queerness, and the Maghrebi/Beur Male in Liria Bégéja's Change-moi ma vie and Amal Bedjaoui's Un fils / Darren Waldron

(Re)Casting Sami Bouajila: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship / Murray Pratt and Denis M. Provencher

Repackaging the Banlieues: Malik Chibane's La Trilogie Urbaine / Vinay Swamy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.

ISBN:

9780803228252

0803228252

OCLC:

711777243