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France: Race, Class, and Revolt: Films

A guide to provide a start to understanding the complex histories and current issues of race and class in France.

Films

Selected films

Mémoires d’immigrés, videorecording (Paris: MK2, 2004), https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6550584, https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3495404

Raï, videorecording (S.l.: Aventi, 1995), https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7133265

La Haine (San Francisco, California, USA: Kanopy Streaming, 2016), https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12861699.

Diop, Alice. Alice Diop: Vers la tendresse, La mort de Danton, Cinéastes de demain (France: Jhr Films, 2017). https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12424421 

Kechiche, Abdellatif.  L’esquive (New York: New Yorker Video, 2006). https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6634656 

 

Books

Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy, eds., Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France (Lincoln [Neb.]: University of Nebraska Press, 2011), https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13078319;

Véronique Machelidon and Patrick Saveau, eds., Reimagining North African Immigration: Identities in Flux in French Literature, Television, and Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13504176.