Research Guides: FREN 312: L'immigration dans le cinéma français (1980-2010) (HC): Finding Books & Book Chapters

Finding Book Chapters / Essay Collections

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Tripod: Books & More
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Bibliothèque nationale de France
The general catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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Selected Books

Multi-Ethnic France: immigration, politics, culture and society by Alec G. Hargreaves
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ISBN: 9780415397827
Publication Date: 2007-04-27
This second edition of Multi-Ethnic France spans politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices and has been updated to cover events which have occurred on the national and international stage since the first edition was published in 1995.

The first edition is also available in print and online
Post-Beur Cinema: North African émigré and Maghrebi-French filmmaking in France since 2000 by Will Higbee
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ISBN: 9780748640041
Publication Date: 2013-07-31
Through a detailed study of this transformative decade for Maghrebi-French and North African emigre filmmaking in France, this book argues for the emergence of a 'Post-Beur' cinema in the 2000s that is simultaneously global and local in its outlook.
Past Forward: French cinema and the post-colonial heritage by Dayna Oscherwitz
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ISBN: 9780809329960
Publication Date: 2010-09-15
Focuses on the world of French films with a new lens. Drawing upon a wealth of research and the examination of popular French movies, Oscherwitz offers fresh perspectives not only on the unique importance of motion pictures and their indelible influence on French character, but on current debates regarding individual and collective memory.
Africa and France: postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism by Dominic Thomas
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ISBN: 9780253006691
Publication Date: 2013-03-20
Reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between Africa and Europe. Thomas questions the attempt to place strict limits on what it means to be French or European and offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness.
Algeria in France: transpolitics, race, and nation by Paul A. Silverstein
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ISBN: 0253344514
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms--from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary narratives, and songs--for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian subjectivities.
Reframing Difference: beur and banlieue filmmaking in France by Carrie Tarr
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ISBN: 0719068762
Publication Date: 2005-09-03
Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassowitz and Djamel Bensalah. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French.
Screening Integration: recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France by Vinay Swamy et al. (eds.)
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ISBN: 9780803228252
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
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 on the social changes the films delineate. Screening Integration brings together established scholars in the fields of postcolonial, Francophone, and film studies to address the latest developments in this cinematic production.