TALK: Eruptions of Violence in Banlieue Culture: French
Media Appropriations of Black Americanisms
Peter Bloom (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 8 / 5:30 PM
IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
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In his talk, Peter Bloom, Assistant Professor of Film
and Media Studies, examines how a semiotics of the social
grievance among residents in the French housing estates
has been transformed into a racial spectacle in the mode
of African American popular cultural forms in which film,
music and media are part an extended continuum of representations
that redefine the stakes for French integration politics.
The talk focuses on three films: Abdellatif Kechiche’s
L’Esquive [Games
of Love and Chance] (2004), Jean-FranÁois
Richet’s Ma 6-T va crack-er [My
6-T {inner city} is Gonna Crack] (1997), and the Luc Besson-produced big-budget
feature Banlieue 13 [District 13] (2004).
Sponsored by the IHC’s Culture, Gender, and Aesthetics
RFG.
