Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.

Introduction / Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy -- From "Ghettoes" to Globalization: Situating Maghrebi-French Filmmakers / Alec G. Hargreaves -- Hidden Islam: The Role of the Religious in Beur and Banlieue Cinema / Michel Cad�e -- "Et si on allait en Alg�erie?" Home, Displacement, and the Myth of Return in Recent Journey Films by Maghrebi-French and North African �Emigr�e Directors / Will Higbee -- Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il �etait une fois dans l'oued / Hakim Abderrezak -- Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema / Sylvie Durmelat -- Rachid Bouchareb's Indig�enes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? / Mireille Rosello -- Class Acts: Education, Gender, and Integration in Recent French Cinema / Carrie Tarr -- Don't Touch the White Woman: La journ�ee de la jupe or Feminism at the Service of Islamophobia / Genevi�eve Sellier -- A Space of Their Own? Women in Maghrebi-French Filmmaking / Patricia Geesey -- Sexual/Social (Re)Orientations: Cross-Dressing, Queerness, and the Maghrebi/Beur Male in Liria B�eg�eja's Change-moi ma vie and Amal Bedjaoui's Un fils / Darren Waldron -- (Re)Casting Sami Bouajila: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship / Murray Pratt and Denis M. Provencher -- Repackaging the Banlieues: Malik Chibane's La Trilogie Urbaine / Vinay Swamy.

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