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9781526106858

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'This edited volume is an important contribution to conceptions of geography and French cinema. The fifteen contributions address the banlieue in film as geographic suburb and mise-en-scene that is both incidental landscape and elemental context for cinematic storytelling. Overall, the volume demonstrates how notions of banlieue cinema allow us to reconsider well-known French interwar and postwar films with an awareness of the postcolonial and hip-hop discourses that have over-coded an underlying historical context. The richness of this approach lies in how it foregrounds spatial dynamics within the Hexagon, or metropolitan France, as supplemented by longstanding histories of migration and regional idioms [...] A wide range of perspectives thus describe and reconsider the space of periphery in French cinema.' Peter J. Bloom, University of California, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (2019) -- .

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Philippe Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Derek Schilling is Professor of French at Johns Hopkins University

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