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:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

North African immigrants, once confined to France's social and cultural margins, have become a strong presence in France's national life. Similarly, descendants of immigrants from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have gained mainstream recognition as filmmakers 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's integration. In the process, these essays reflect on the co

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49782-3

9786613593054

0-8032-3838-X

OCLC:

793511404