Screening Integration - 9780803228252

Screening IntegrationRecasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France\nAuthor(s): Sylvie Durmelat, Vinay Swamy, Sylvie Durmelat, Vinay Swamy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803228252, 978-0803228252\nSynopsis\nNorth 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, as well as .