Reframing Difference: Beur And Banlieue Filmmaking in France - Brossura

Tarr, Carrie

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ISBN 10: 0719068770 ISBN 13: 9780719068775

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

This is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, "cinéma beur" (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and "cinéma de banlieue" (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassowitz and Djamel Bensalah. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French.

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Carrie Tarr is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University


Carrie Tarr is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University

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Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassovitz and Djamel Bensalah. Her analyses compare the work of male and female, majority and minority film-makers, and emphasise the significance of authorship in the representation of gender and ethnicity. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French. This timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and citizenship in a multicultural society.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719068770
• ISBN 13: 9780719068775
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile