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Reframing Difference
Carrie Tarr
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Description for Reframing Difference
Paperback. Introduction; 1. Questions of identity in beur cinema: From Le The au harem d'Archimede to Cheb; 2. Beurz in the hood: Le The au harem d'Archimede and Hexagone; 3. Ethnicity and identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Metisse and La Haine; 4. Beur and banlieue cinema in 1995; 5. Num Pages: 242 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719068775
SKU
V9780719068775
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About Carrie Tarr
Carrie Tarr is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University -- .
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