Description
Book SynopsisProvides a much-needed reference for those interested in comprehending the complex shifts in twenty-first century French cinema
Trade Review"[
Screening Integration is] a welcome study of a recent body of Maghrebi-French films. . . . The book is a solid, timely read."—Florence Martin,
H-France"Fascinating volume . . . in-depth and challenging discussions of individual films all while considering the impact of this for contemporary France more widely."—Hannah Kilduff,
Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies"This is a nicely balanced and focused book that will undoubtedly find its way onto a good number of reading lists."—Martin O'Shaughnessy,
Modern & Contemporary France"This edited volume is a must-read for anyone interested in cultural productions by and about the Maghrebi and Maghrebi-French populations in France and/or in broader questions relating to integration, immigration, and difference in France."—Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp,
Reviews & Critical CommentaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy
1. From "Ghettoes" to Globalization: Situating Maghrebi-French Filmmakers
Alec G. Hargreaves
2. Hidden Islam: The Role of the Religious in Beur and Banlieue Cinema
Michel Cadé
3. "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
4. Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued
Hakim Abderrezak
5. Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema
Sylvie Durmelat
6. Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory?
Mireille Rosello
7. Class Acts: Education, Gender, and Integration in Recent French Cinema
Carrie Tarr
8. Don't Touch the White Woman: La journée de la jupe or Feminism at the Service of Islamophobia
Geneviève Sellier
9. A Space of Their Own? Women in Maghrebi-French Filmmaking
Patricia Geesey
10. 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
11. (Re)Casting Sami Bouajila: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship
Murray Pratt and Denis M. Provencher
12. Repackaging the Banlieues: Malik Chibane's La trilogie urbaine
Vinay Swamy
Filmography
Contributors
Index
