
Reframing Difference
Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France
Carrie Tarr(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. May 2005
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7190-6876-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6876-8 (9780719068768)
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Person
Carrie Tarr is Senior Research Fellow at Thames Valley University, London
Content
Introduction; 1. Questions of identity in beur cinema: From Le The au harem d'Archimede to Cheb; 2. Beurz in the hood: Le The au harem d'Archimede and Hexagone; 3. Ethnicity and identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Metisse and La Haine; 4. Beur and banlieue cinema in 1995; 5. Beur women in the banlieue: Les Histoires d'amour finissent mal en general and Souviens-toi de moi; 6. Masculinity and exclusion in post-1995 beur and banlieue films; 7. Grrrls in the hood: Samia and La Squale; 8. Memories of immigration: Sous les pieds des femmes and Vivre au paradis; 9. Beurs in the provinces: From L'Honneur de ma famille to Drole de Felix; 10. Heroines of cross-cultural social protest: Marie-Line and Chaos; 11. Beur filmmaking in the new millennium: From Le Raid to Jeunesse doree; 12. Voices from the Maghreb: From Le The a la menthe to La Fille de Keltoum; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index