Reframing Difference

Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France

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by Carrie Tarr

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > France

Keywords

France, immigration, sociology, social aspects

Publishing date

2005

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 240 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7190-6877-0
978-0-7190-6877-5

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Carrie Tarr is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press