Visual Voices From The Banlieues
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Visual Voices From The Banlieues
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Author : Zachary Hagins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Visual Voices From The Banlieues written by Zachary Hagins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
This dissertation presents and analyzes photographic narratives produced between 2005 and 2010 about France's disadvantaged banlieues, spaces on urban peripheries with high concentrations of low-income housing and immigrant populations of (post)colonial origin. In October-November 2005, when a localized tragedy in Clichy-sous-Bois sparked three weeks of nationwide civil unrest on a scale not seen since May 1968, the world took notice. Given the great intensity with which media outlets, both national and international, covered these riots, I argue that this historical moment marks a peak in the widespread mythology that depicts the banlieues as homogenous spaces of deterministic crime and violence simmering on French urban and social peripheries. Visual media, in particular, played a major role, as images of cars ablaze, buildings vandalized, and urban youths clashing with riot squads filled newspapers, magazines, and television screens. Once these images helped unleash long-standing negative stereotypes, staunch proponents of French republicanism fueled their flames to the point that questions arose both locally and abroad about the nation-state's ability to maintain cohesion.I take media and political discourses on the October-November 2005 riots as my point of departure. I first historicize media representations of the banlieues' fraught history to demonstrate how stereotypes about the French urban periphery adapt in order to endure. Since the 2005 events though, socially engaged photographers have been re-envisioning what it means to live in the banlieues, and alternative visual discourses that counter clichés of disorder and delinquency are emerging. I contend that such projects reframe peripheral sites and marginalized groups as central to an evolving understanding of French society. I analyze the construction, function, and influence of visual narratives in photographs by Mathieu Pernot, Mohamed Bourouissa, JR, and France Keyser, as well as those present in a multi-artist photographic project funded by Clichy-sous-Bois. Interrogating configurations of gender, class, religion, ethnicity, and architectural space in the images, I demonstrate how the photographs transmit increasingly complex visual paradigms that destabilize monolithic depictions of dangerous banlieues and violent banlieusards that generally circulate in the French public sphere. As a result, this project establishes contemporary photography as a principal lens for evaluating how underprivileged social actors negotiate political, social, and cultural obstacles.
Finding Voice
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Author : Kim Shelley Berman
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2018-01-02
Finding Voice written by Kim Shelley Berman and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-02 with Social Science categories.
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages and backgrounds can contribute to economic stability by developing new skills, as well as enhancing public health and gender justice within communities. Berman’s work, and the community artwork her book documents, present the visual arts as a crucial channel for citizens to find their individual voices and to become agents for change in the arenas of human rights and democracy.
Gender In French Banlieue Cinema
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Author : Marzia Caporale
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-07-23
Gender In French Banlieue Cinema written by Marzia Caporale and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Social Science categories.
This edited volume investigates the reconfiguration of gender in French banlieue cinema, interrogating whether the films produced over the last two decades provide new and viable models of resistance to dominant modes of power. Contributors take a critical approach which identifies gender as a marker of both body and identity politics to highlight the need to overcome a binary approach to banlieue aesthetics, which limits inquiry into the basis of conflict. Given that a feminization—and, to some extent, queering—of the once exclusively-masculine space is underway, contributors ultimately conclude that the banlieue and its on-screen representations cannot be properly understood unless intersectionality as a systematic approach is applied as an interpretive lens. Scholars of film, gender studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Home Screens
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Author : Lorrie Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-16
Home Screens written by Lorrie Palmer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-16 with Social Science categories.
How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing? Why is public housing so often chosen as the backdrop for drama, horror, social critique, rebellion, violence, artistic creativity, explorations of race relations and political intrigue? Home Screens answers these questions by examining the ways in which socialized housing projects around the world are represented on screen. The volume brings together a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars, who explore documentary and fictional portrayals of the architecture of public housing, and the communities that inhabit it, ranging from the 1950s to the present. Examining international film and media texts such as Die Architekten (1990), Swagger (2016), Cooley High (1975), Mee-Pok Man (1995), Treme (20102013), Mamma Roma (1962), The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), and Below the Lion Rock (19721976), essays within this book consider public and private attitudes toward socialised housing, explaining how onscreen representations shape perceptions of these ubiquitous, often-stigmatized urban locations.
The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Popular Music Space And Place
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Author : Geoff Stahl
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-01-13
The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Popular Music Space And Place written by Geoff Stahl and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-13 with Music categories.
Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection between place and music. This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music. An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography, ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and consumption of place in popular music. Through considerations of changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters (queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-to-the-moment overview of central discussions about place and music. The contributors explore a range of contexts, moving from the studio to the stage, the city to the suburb, the bedroom to festival, from nightclub to museum, with each entry highlighting the diverse and complex ways in which music and place are mutually constitutive.
Post Migratory Cultures In Postcolonial France
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Author : Kathryn A. Kleppinger
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-08
Post Migratory Cultures In Postcolonial France written by Kathryn A. Kleppinger and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, “Frenchness” and national identity, and contemporary cultural production in France.
Maurice Pialat
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Author : Marja Warehime
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-05
Maurice Pialat written by Marja Warehime and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-05 with Performing Arts categories.
The power of Pialat's realism has often overshadowed his formal originality and this study gives equal attention to formal issues, including the crucial role of montage in the elaboration of his filmic narratives." "The author provides a brief biographical sketch of the filmmaker, situating Pialat's work in relation to the New Wave and the popular Saturday night cinema of his childhood, as well as giving an overview of the major themes and formal preoccupations of his work. Subsequent chapters provide readings of each of his full-length films. The resulting volume is essential to any collection on French film and makes a valuable contribution to the broader field of French studies."--Jacket.
Reframing Difference
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Author : Carrie Tarr
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-17
Reframing Difference written by Carrie Tarr and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-17 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, "cinéma beur" (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and "cinéma de banlieue" (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful account draws on a wide range of films, from directors such as Mehdi Charef, Mathieu Kassowitz and Djamel Bensalah. Foregrounding such issues as the quest for identity, the negotiation of space and the recourse to memory and history, she argues that these films challenge and reframe the symbolic spaces of French culture, addressing issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means to be French.
Voices Of The Ritual
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Author : Nurit Stadler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-15
Voices Of The Ritual written by Nurit Stadler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with Religion categories.
Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East. In the midst of turbulent political contention over land and borders, Nurit Stadler shows, religious minorities lay claim to space through rituals enacted at sacred spaces in the Holy Land. Using ethnographic analysis, Stadler explores the rise of these rituals, their focus on the body, female materiality, and their place in the Israeli-Palestinian landscape. Stadler examines the varied features of the practice and implications of the rituals, looking at themes of femininity and material experience. She considers the role of the body in rituals that represent the act of birth or the circle of life and that aim to foster an intimate connection between the female saint and her worshippers. Stadler underscores the political, cultural, and spatial elements of this practice, bringing attention to how religious minorities (Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze, among others) have utilized these rituals to assert their right to the land. Voices of the Ritual offers a valuable assessment of religious ritual practice that encrypts female themes into a landscape that has historically been defined by war and conflict.
Mapping Society
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Author : Laura Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-09-24
Mapping Society written by Laura Vaughan and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-24 with Social Science categories.
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities. The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.