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Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France
Sylvie Durmelat
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Description for Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France
Paperback. Provides a much-needed reference for those interested in comprehending the complex shifts in twenty-first century French cinema Editor(s): Durmelat, Sylvie; Swamy, Vinay. Num Pages: 360 pages, 21 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HB; APF; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
North African immigrants, once confined to France’s social and cultural margins, have become a strong presence in France’s national life. Similarly, descendants of immigrants from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have gained mainstream recognition as filmmakers 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’s integration. In the process, these essays reflect on the conditions that allowed for the burgeoning of this cinema in the first place, ... Read more
North African immigrants, once confined to France’s social and cultural margins, have become a strong presence in France’s national life. Similarly, descendants of immigrants from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have gained mainstream recognition as filmmakers 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’s integration. In the process, these essays reflect on the conditions that allowed for the burgeoning of this cinema in the first place, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803228252
SKU
V9780803228252
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About Sylvie Durmelat
Sylvie Durmelat is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Fictions de l’intégration: du mot beur à la politique de la mémoire. Vinay Swamy is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Vassar College and the author of Interpreting the Republic: Marginalization and Belonging in Contemporary French Novels and ... Read more
Reviews for Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France
"[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 ... Read more