Reframing Difference: Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France - Hardcover

Tarr, Carrie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719068762 ISBN 13: 9780719068768

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Carrie Tarr is Senior Research Fellow at Thames Valley University, London

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0719068762
• ISBN 13: 9780719068768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240