Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A much-needed contribution to scholarship on banlieue cinema. . . . Pettersen's analyses provide a thoughtful and highly informed discourse on identity politics in contemporary Western, multiracial societies that is of broad relevance, just as his overview of transnational genre theory and industrial exegeses will provide paradigms applicable to other areas of audiovisual study."—Mary Harrod, author of Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille
"This compelling study revises our ideas about contemporary French cinema, foregrounding the banlieue film—from the work of Mathieu Kassovitz to Luc Besson to Céline Sciamma—and linking it the horror film, socially critical cinema, and art film. Pettersen makes judicious use of the tools of cultural history, critical theory, and film analysis in this excavation of the national and transnational character of French cinema."—Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Film Titles and French-Language Citations
Introduction
1. Suburban Cinema Between Art and Genre
2. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Parkour in the Suburbs
3. Suburban Gangsters: Screen Violence and the Banlieues
4. Suburbanoia and French Banlieue Horror Films
5. Omar Sy: Black Superstardom in Contemporary France
6. Beyond the Art/Genre Divide: Céline Sciamma's Girlhood
Conclusion: Genre, Inclusive Casting, and the Suburbs in the Age of SVoD
Bibliography
Index
