Reframing difference : beur and banlieue filmmaking in France / Carrie Tarr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarr, Carrie, author.

Series:

Manchester Film Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--France.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Realism in motion pictures.

Race in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first major study of two overlapping strands in contemporary French cinema, cin?ema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cin?ema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates).

Contents:

Questions of identity in beur cinema : from Le The au harem d'Archimede to Cheb

Beurz in the hood : Le The au harem d'Archimede and Hexagone

Ethnicity and identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Metisse adn La Haine

Beur and banlieue cinema in 1995

Beur women in the banlieue : Les histoires d'amour finissent mal en general and Souviens-toi de moi

Masculinityand exclusion in post-1995 beur and banlieue films

Grrrls in the banlieue : Samia and La Squale

Memories of immigration : Sous les pieds des femmes and Vivre au paradis

Beurs in the provinces : from L'Honneur de ma famille to Drôle de Felix

Heroines of cross-cultural social protest : Marie-Line and Chaos

Beur filmmaking in the new millenium : from Le Raïd to Jeunesse doree

Voices from the Maghreb : from Le The à la menthe to La fille de Keltoum.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-5261-4175-2

OCLC:

1523202787