Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowlegments -- Introduction -- 1 From "Ghettoes" to Globlization: Situating Maghrebi-French Filmmakers -- 2 Hidden Islam: The Role of the Religiousin Beur and Banlieue Cinema -- 3 "Et si on allait en Algérie?" Home, Displacement,and the Myth of Return in Recent JourneyFilms by Maghrebi-French and North AfricanÉmigré Directors -- 4 Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnnythe Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the ArabGrocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued -- 5 Re-Visions of the Algerian War ofIndependence: Writing the Memories ofAlgerian Immigrants into French Cinema -- 6 Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? -- 7 Class Acts: Education, Gender, andIntegration in Recent French Cinema -- 8 Don't Touch the White Woman: La journée de la jupe or Feminism at the Service of Islamophobia -- 9 A Space of Their Own?Women in Maghrebi-French Filmmaking -- 10 Sexual/Social (Re)Orientations:Cross-Dressing, Queerness, and theMaghrebi/Beur Male in Liria Bégéja's Changemoima vie and Amal Bedjaoui's Un fils -- 11 (Re)Casting Sami Bouajila:An Ambiguous Model of Integration,Belonging, and Citizenship -- 12 Repackaging the Banlieues:Malik Chibane's La trilogie urbaine -- Filmography -- Contributors -- Index.