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Title

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

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Durmelat, Sylvie.
• Swamy, Vinay.

Description

250 p., [21] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

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.

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Assimilation (Sociology) in motion pictures
• Immigrants in motion pictures
• North Africans in motion pictures
• Social integration in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780803228252 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0803228252 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011010518

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library