Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture

Joseph McGonagle

doi:10.7765/9781526107503

The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remains one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society. This is the first book to analyse how a range of different ethnicities have been represented across contemporary French visual culture. Via a wide series of case studies – from the worldwide hit film Amélie to France’s popular TV series Plus belle la vie – it probes how ethnicities have been represented across different media, including film, photography, television and the visual arts. Four chapters examine distinct areas of particular importance: national identity, people of Algerian heritage, Jewishness and France’s second city Marseille.

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Front Matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of figures
pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-x

Introduction
pp 1-19

1 - Changing notions of national identity: Engaging with ethnicity
pp 20-83

2 - Shaping spaces: Representing people of Algerian heritage
pp 84-128

3 - From the past to the present: Parameters of Jewish identity
pp 129-177

4 - A multi-ethnic metropolis: Representations of Marseille
pp 178-232

Conclusion
pp 233-236

References
pp 237-251

Filmography
pp 252-255

Index
pp 256-261

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