Porous privacies: Gender, migration, and precarious homes in early twenty-first century narrative films from the French Mediterranean

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dc.contributor.authorHaenni, Sabineen
dc.contributor.editorSborgi, Anna Violaen
dc.contributor.editorPatton, Elizabethen
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T09:53:15Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T09:53:15Z
dc.date.issued45329en
dc.description.abstractA prominent trope in so-called banlieue cinema—French cinema focused on housing projects on the outskirts of large French cities largely inhabited by migrants and their descendants—represents precarious migrant homes, and by extension entire neighborhoods, as dysfunctional and cut off from social life. This essay explores representations of precarious migrant homes that resist such polarising media images, and that insist on a porous privacy as a precondition for narrative and subjective development—for the ability to thrive—while pointing out the often gendered and precarious nature of such porosity. The natural and built specificities of the Mediterranean coast have often provided a productively rich set for such revisions, including for auteurs such as Claire Denis and Abdellatif Kechiche to develop their distinctive styles. Lesser-known filmmakers, such as Bania Medjbar and Hafsia Herzi, emerge in the wake of earlier revisionist films. Less focused on developing distinctive styles, they are invested in character-driven stories, and on stories that feature a range of characters and thus narrative options, while pointing out the gendered complexities of precariously porous homes.en
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dc.identifier.citationHaenni, S. (2024) 'Porous privacies: Gender, migration, and precarious homes in early twenty-first century narrative films from the French Mediterranean', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 26, pp. 39-57. doi: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.03en
dc.identifier.endpage57en
dc.identifier.issued26
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage39en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15514
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
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dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectHomeen
dc.subjectPorosityen
dc.subjectBanlieue filmen
dc.titlePorous privacies: Gender, migration, and precarious homes in early twenty-first century narrative films from the French Mediterraneanen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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