Reframing Difference: Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France

by Carrie Tarr

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719068770
• ISBN13: 9780719068775
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"