Screening Youth : Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema

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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. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Disparate Lives: Representations of Youth in French and Francophone Cinema 2 Un Vrai ‘Teen Film’ Français? The Contemporary Adolescent Genre in French Cinema 3 Childhood and Gender Panic in Ma Vie en rose and Tomboy 4 Bargaining the Body: Love, Death and Rites of Passage in Three Films by François Ozon 5 Repetition and Difference: The Representation of Youth in the Films of Céline Sciamma 6 Mia Hansen-Løve, Postfeminism in France and the Melancholic Girl 7 Frames of Desire and Otherness: Queer Bodies Caught in-between France and the Maghreb 8 ‘A Child of the Ruins’: Youthful Disaffection and the ‘Making Of’ the Terrorist 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 10 (Re)Framing Youth and Identity in the Classroom in Être et avoir and Entre les murs 11 Young Love and Everyday Freedom: Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Faute à Voltaire and La Vie d’Adèle 12 Anthem for (Doomed) Youth: War, AIDS and the Queer Autobiographical Cinema of André Téchiné 13 ‘Je veux promouvoir le vivre-ensemble’: Youth and Friendship in L’Auberge espagnole, Les Poupées russes and Casse-tête chinois 14 Catherine Breillat’s Maiden Trilogy 15 Dismembering and Remembering Childhood in Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin Index