Screening Youth : Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema

This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established Francophone directors, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. The First Book Devoted To A Wide-ranging Study Of Developments In Global French-language Cinema, From Quebec To Mauritania And From Belgium To Cambodia, Cinéma-monde Picks Up On The Lively Scholarly Debates Generated By The Related Topic Of Littérature-monde. Extending The Scope Of This Debate To Cover The Thriving And Diverse Area Of International French-language Cinema, This Innovative Book Also Considers Cinema From France Within The Context Of Global Production. With Contributions From An International Range Of Specialists, And With Considerations Of Works By Contemporary Directors Like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako And Rithy Panh, Cinéma-monde Explores The Porous Borders Around Francophone Spaces And The Ways In Which Languages And Identities 'travel' In Contemporary Cinema.-- Introduction: The Kaleidoscope Of Cinéma-monde / Michael Gott And Thibaut Schilt -- Part I. From Local To Global: The Cinéma(s)-monde(s) Of Auteurs And Actors. 1. Site 2: Style And Encounter In Rithy Pabh's Cinéma-monde / Joseph Mai -- 2. Globalisation, Cinema And Terrorism In Rachid Bouchareb's Films: London River, Baton Rouge And Little Senegal / Mireille Rosello -- 3. Guerrilla Filmmaking With Rachid Djaïdani / Laura Reeck -- 4. Globalisation, Cinéma-monde And The Work Of Abderrahmane Sissako / Dayna Oscherwitz -- 5. The Career Of Actress Hafsia Herzi: Crossing Borders, Challenging Barriers / Leslie Kealhofer-kemp -- Part Ii. Voyages, Limits And Borders. 6. Lost At Sea Or Charting A New Course?: Mapping The Murky Contours Of Cinéma-monde In Floating Francophone Films / Michael Gott -- 7. The Beautiful Fantasy: Imaginary Representations Of Football In West African Cinema / Vlad Dima -- 8. Merry Christmas In No Man's Land: European Borders, Language Barriers And Front Lines In Christian Carion's Joyeux Noël / Gemma King -- 9. An Ostrich, A Backhoe And A Few Ski-doos: Tracking The Road Movie In Quebec And Beyond / Thibaut Schilt -- 10. Accented Mappings Of France In A Globalised World: Le Havre (2011) And Samba (2014) Through The Lens Of Cinéma-monde / Leïla Ennaïli -- Part Iii. Hubs And Spheres Of Production. 11. Activist Cinéma-monde In Paris: Filming Foreigners In The French Capital / Alison Rice -- 12. Cinema Made In Liège: A 'hub' Of Francophone Belgian Filmmaking / Jamie Steele -- 13. 'images Of Diversity': Film Policy And The State Struggle For The Representation Of Difference In French Cinema / Michelle Stewart -- 14. Youth And Média-engagé: Is This West Africa's Heterolinguistic Cinéma-monde? / Carina Yervasi -- Epilogues: Worlds Within; In The World / Bill Marshall -- Cinéma-mode As A Call To Arms / Lucy Mazdon -- Cinéma-monde And The Transnational / Will Higbee. Edited By Michael Gott And Thibaut Schilt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Explores how the topic of 'youth' has inspired Francophone filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young peopleYouth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of 'youth' has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions - political, social, religious, economic or cultural - that agitate a society at a given time in its history.Key featuresDeals with contemporary issues such as LGBTQ identities, terrorism or social tensions and inequities in French and Francophone societiesPresents significant filmmakers whose work has rarely been discussed in an academic settingIntroduces the works of emerging directors and/or prominent directors from Francophone countriesGathers academics from different fields, offering a multi-faceted approach to the topic of youth in filmContributorsKarine Chevalier, University of Roehampton, LondonJuliette Feyel, University of Paris-NanterreFiona Handyside, University of ExeterMaria Flood, Keele UniversityAubrey Korneta, Sarah Lawrence College Kathryn Chaffee, University of California, Los AngelesBen McCann, University of AdelaideEricka Knudson, Harvard UniversityGemma Edney, University of ExeterElizabeth Geary Keohane, University of GlasgowJocelyn Wright, University of Texas - AustinWalter S. Temple, Utah Valley UniversityJeri English, University of Toronto, ScarboroughClaire Boyle, University of Edinburgh Romain Chareyron, University of SaskatchewanGilles Viennot, University of Arkansas.. Cover 1 Title Page 2 Copyright 3 Contents 4 List of Figures 6 Notes on Contributors 7 1 Disparate Lives: Representations of Youth in French and Francophone Cinema 12 2 Un Vrai ‘Teen Film’ Français? The Contemporary Adolescent Genre in French Cinema 29 3 Childhood and Gender Panic in Ma Vie en rose and Tomboy 44 4 Bargaining the Body: Love, Death and Rites of Passage in Three Films by François Ozon 58 5 Repetition and Difference: The Representation of Youth in the Films of Céline Sciamma 73 6 Mia Hansen-Løve, Postfeminism in France and the Melancholic Girl 92 7 Frames of Desire and Otherness: Queer Bodies Caught in-between France and the Maghreb 110 8 ‘A Child of the Ruins’: Youthful Disaffection and the ‘Making Of’ the Terrorist 126 9 Gender and Representations of the Banlieue in Abd Al Malik’s Qu’Allah bénisse la France! and Sylvie Ohayon’s Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone 147 10 (Re)Framing Youth and Identity in the Classroom in Être et avoir and Entre les murs 163 11 Young Love and Everyday Freedom: Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Faute à Voltaire and La Vie d’Adèle 184 12 Anthem for (Doomed) Youth: War, AIDS and the Queer Autobiographical Cinema of André Téchiné 199 13 ‘Je veux promouvoir le vivre-ensemble’: Youth and Friendship in L’Auberge espagnole, Les Poupées russes and Casse-tête chinois 217 14 Catherine Breillat’s Maiden Trilogy 233 15 Dismembering and Remembering Childhood in Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin 245 Index 262 With contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinema-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities 'travel' in contemporary cinema