Publication: Banlieue Stories: Mapping the Paris Suburbs On Screen, 1958-2012
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2014-02-25
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Bender, Joseph Masland. 2014. Banlieue Stories: Mapping the Paris Suburbs On Screen, 1958-2012. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
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The substantive la banlieue does not simply describe a geographical territory, but rather names a particular articulation of images and narratives that constitute the ‘banlieue question’. This dissertation tracks the development and contestation of a set of procedures that construct the banlieue as an object of knowledge, expertise, and intervention. Under the heading ‘banlieue stories’ I collect a range of media that engage with la banlieue as a discursive regime, challenging the practices and procedures through which screen media construct the banlieues as the ‘lost territories’ of the Republic.
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Film studies, European studies, Romance literature, Banlieue Cinema, Cinema, Paris, Spatial Practices, Suburbs, Urban Studies
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