David Pettersen is Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France.

"A much-needed contribution to scholarship on banlieue cinema. . . . Pettersen's analyses provide a thoughtful and highly informed discourse on identity politics in contemporary Western, multiracial societies that is of broad relevance, just as his overview of transnational genre theory and industrial exegeses will provide paradigms applicable to other areas of audiovisual study."—Mary Harrod, author of Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille"This compelling study revises our ideas about contemporary French cinema, foregrounding the banlieue film—from the work of Mathieu Kassovitz to Luc Besson to Céline Sciamma—and linking it the horror film, socially critical cinema, and art film. Pettersen makes judicious use of the tools of cultural history, critical theory, and film analysis in this excavation of the national and transnational character of French cinema."—Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Film Titles and French-Language CitationsIntroduction1. Suburban Cinema Between Art and Genre2. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Parkour in the Suburbs3. Suburban Gangsters: Screen Violence and the Banlieues4. Suburbanoia and French Banlieue Horror Films5. Omar Sy: Black Superstardom in Contemporary France6. Beyond the Art/Genre Divide: Céline Sciamma's GirlhoodConclusion: Genre, Inclusive Casting, and the Suburbs in the Age of SVoDBibliographyIndex

David Pettersen is Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France.

"A much-needed contribution to scholarship on banlieue cinema. . . . Pettersen's analyses provide a thoughtful and highly informed discourse on identity politics in contemporary Western, multiracial societies that is of broad relevance, just as his overview of transnational genre theory and industrial exegeses will provide paradigms applicable to other areas of audiovisual study."—Mary Harrod, author of Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille"This compelling study revises our ideas about contemporary French cinema, foregrounding the banlieue film—from the work of Mathieu Kassovitz to Luc Besson to Céline Sciamma—and linking it the horror film, socially critical cinema, and art film. Pettersen makes judicious use of the tools of cultural history, critical theory, and film analysis in this excavation of the national and transnational character of French cinema."—Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Film Titles and French-Language CitationsIntroduction1. Suburban Cinema Between Art and Genre2. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Parkour in the Suburbs3. Suburban Gangsters: Screen Violence and the Banlieues4. Suburbanoia and French Banlieue Horror Films5. Omar Sy: Black Superstardom in Contemporary France6. Beyond the Art/Genre Divide: Céline Sciamma's GirlhoodConclusion: Genre, Inclusive Casting, and the Suburbs in the Age of SVoDBibliographyIndex

David Pettersen is Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France.

"A much-needed contribution to scholarship on banlieue cinema. . . . Pettersen's analyses provide a thoughtful and highly informed discourse on identity politics in contemporary Western, multiracial societies that is of broad relevance, just as his overview of transnational genre theory and industrial exegeses will provide paradigms applicable to other areas of audiovisual study."—Mary Harrod, author of Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille"This compelling study revises our ideas about contemporary French cinema, foregrounding the banlieue film—from the work of Mathieu Kassovitz to Luc Besson to Céline Sciamma—and linking it the horror film, socially critical cinema, and art film. Pettersen makes judicious use of the tools of cultural history, critical theory, and film analysis in this excavation of the national and transnational character of French cinema."—Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Film Titles and French-Language CitationsIntroduction1. Suburban Cinema Between Art and Genre2. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Parkour in the Suburbs3. Suburban Gangsters: Screen Violence and the Banlieues4. Suburbanoia and French Banlieue Horror Films5. Omar Sy: Black Superstardom in Contemporary France6. Beyond the Art/Genre Divide: Céline Sciamma's GirlhoodConclusion: Genre, Inclusive Casting, and the Suburbs in the Age of SVoDBibliographyIndex