Screening youth : contemporary French and Francophone cinema / edited by Romain Chareyron and Gilles Viennot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Explores how the topic of 'youth' has inspired Francophone filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people ... a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of 'youth' has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions -- political, social, religious, economic or cultural -- that agitate a society at a given time in its history ... Deals with contemporary issues such as LGBTQ identities, terrorism or social tensions and inequities in French and Francophone societies" -- Publisher.

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

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