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This edited volume investigates the reconfiguration of gender in French banlieue cinema, interrogating whether the films produced over the last two decades provide new and viable models of resistance to dominant modes of power. Contributors take a critical approach which identifies gender as a marker of both body and identity politics to highlight the need to overcome a binary approach to banlieue aesthetics, which limits inquiry into the basis of conflict. Given that a feminization-and, to some extent, queering-of the once exclusively-masculine space is underway, contributors ultimately conclude that the banlieue and its on-screen representations cannot be properly understood unless intersectionality as a systematic approach is applied as an interpretive lens. Scholars of film, gender studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
List of contents
Part I: Intersectional Approaches to
Banlieue Cinema. Race, Religion, and Social Marginalization
Chapter 1: Deessentializing Patriarchal Islam, Recentering Female Spirituality: The Examples of
Divines (2016) and
Mignonnes (2020), Evie Munier
Chapter 2: Gender, Race, and the Pitfalls of White Feminist Subjectivity in
Regarde-moi (Audrey Estrogo, 2007), Brett Bowles
Chapter 3: Revisioning the
Banlieues: From Mainstream Cinema to Grassroots Visual Representations, Ashley Harris
Part II: Women and Education: Gender and Resistance in
Banlieue Schools
Chapter 4: Unequal Expectations: Emotional Labor in
Banlieue Classroom Films, Eric Bulakites
Chapter 5: Gender Dynamics and Spatiality in
Banlieue Cinema Schools, Kévin Drif
Part III: Gender and Performance: Body Politics in Banlieue Spaces
Chapter 6: Queer Masculinity on the Margins:
Banlieue Spaces and Sex Work in Camille Vidal-Naquet's
Sauvage, Peter Tarjanyi
Chapter 7: Dancing in the
Banlieue: Rechoreographing Gender in Houda Benyamina's
Divines and Maïmouna Doucouré's
Mignonnes, Tessa Nunn
Chapter 8: From the American Musical to French Hip Hop: The Political Dance of Black Girlhood in Céline Sciamma's
Bande de filles, Mary M. Wiles
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Edited by Marzia Caporale; Claire Mouflard and Habib Zanzana - Contributions by Brett Bowles; Eric Bulakites; Kévin Drif; Ashley Harris; Evie Munier; Tessa Nunn; Peter Tarjanyi and Mary M. Wiles
