Cinéma Beur
Cinéma Beur (French: cinéma “Kino” and verlan : beur “Arabs”) describes a cinema film genre that deals with migrants of Maghrebian origin in France and / or was created by a “ Beur ” or that the “Beurs” as Target group announced.
Story and content
Cinéma Beur is the name given to the cinema created in the early 1980s by North African filmmakers who grew up in France and who thematise the life worlds of immigrants in their films. The contrast between the Maghrebic past of the parents and the present in the banlieues of the large French cities were the starting point for the concept of a cinema that addresses the irreversibility of cultural mixing and life in at least two cultures.
The German author Cornelia Ruhe deals with the genre in her book Cinéma Beur . The reviewer Stefan Otto says:
“The burning suburbs of Paris have shown it very clearly: beyond the popular paths, there is a reality in France that is characterized by immigration and multiculturalism , by racism and social problems. In her study Cinéma beur… examines… Ruhe exemplary films from 1985 to 1997 that focus on this life in these focal points of the banlieues. Six films about the fate of Maghreb immigrants and their children: tea in Archimedes' harem , hate , bye-bye, kiss-kiss in Paris, the other side of the sea and light years of Paris ... these are the films a genre of its own that has meanwhile fought for its place in the French cinema landscape against all prejudices. The basic narrative pattern of the genre beur has become so inscribed in French cinema through the films of the past two decades that it can be accessed and played with at all levels of production and reception within the media mythology of today's France. It is no longer just the suburbs that are determined by the children of immigration, but the country's culture is now shaped by them in a variety of ways. ' (so calm). "
criticism
The German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akın ( Gegen die Wand ) , who has created something comparable in Germany with his Turkish-migrant themes, claims that the Cinéma Beur has not existed since Mathieu Kassovitz 's hatred (La haine, 1995) .
Web links
- Cinéma Beur . In: Lexicon of film terms , Bender Verlag
literature
- Cornelia Ruhe: Cinéma Beur: Analysis of a new genre of French film. UVK, Constance 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ koki-freiburg.de on the subject; accessed June 2, 2011
- ↑ Stefan Otto: uvk-konstanz.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) review; in: Kinozeit , accessed on June 2, 2011
- ↑ Amin Farzanefar: Migrant Cinema is now called Mediterranean Cinema . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 9, 2003
