Mixed Feelings in France : White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy /
Pepiak, Ewelina
Mixed Feelings in France : White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy / Ewelina Pepiak. - 1 online resource (330 p.) - Film .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- Introduction -- ‘That’s just terrifying’: Multicultural France and its Representations -- Métissage and White Femininity in the French Representational Regime -- French Multicultural Comedy: an Ambiguous Genre -- Chapter Description -- Reading White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy -- Ethnic and Gender Stereotypes in Film Research -- Postcolonial Theory in France -- Critical Whiteness Studies -- Mixed Feelings: Methodological Investigation -- French and Black. Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Early Multicultural Comedies -- White Femininity as a Narrative Vehicle in Agathe Cléry (Chatiliez, 2008) -- Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s La Première Étoile -- Decomplexed Laughter -- Conclusion: Intersubjective Looking and Comic Effect -- The Universalist Ambivalence of Métissage in Il reste du jambon?/Bacon on the Side (Depetrini, 2010) -- Screening Islam and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy -- Laughing Together? The Right to Cultural Incompetence -- The Hierarchies of Gender -- Conclusion: The Ambivalence of Universalist Rhetoric -- Fortress France and the Limits of Love. Interethnic Spaces in Samba (Nakache and Toledano, 2014) -- Métissage and Citizenship: The Aesthetics of Screening Undocumented Workers -- Samba, or the Ordinariness of Illegalised Immigration -- Alice au pays des papiers.49 White Femininity, Mental Health, and Community Work -- Conclusion: Between Multicultural Comedy and Postcolonial Film -- Stereotyping, Nostalgia, and Postmodern Irony in Philippe de Chauveron’s Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu? -- Contested Aesthetics in Philippe de Chauveron’s Comedies -- The Hierarchies in Representing White Female Characters -- Race, Male Gaze and Comic Relief -- Conclusion: The Republican Perspective and Ambiguous Criticism -- Queering Multicultural Comedy. White Femininity and Métissage in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali 2017) and Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza 2018) -- Queerness in Multicultural Comedy and Neoliberal Rationale -- Bromantic Tropes and Neoliberal Ideology in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali, 2017) -- The Limits of Queering in the Space of Multicultural Romantic Comedy -- ‘C’est quoi une vraie lesbienne?’ Queerness, Unruliness, and Ethnic Stereotyping in Myriam Aziza’s Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza, 2018) -- Conclusion: Retraditionalising White Femininity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography
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While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aesthetic register by deploying a »republican gaze« - an ironic meta-narrative perspective on ethnic minorities. Ewelina Pepiak analyses how gender and ethnicity are represented in seven contemporary French comedies (2008-2018) including mixed-race couples, focusing on a trope of métissage (biological and cultural mixing) and white femininity. As analyses of ethnic and gender representations remain scarce due to the slow emergence of postcolonial studies in France, this study adds significant insights to the postcolonial debate.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783839473931
10.1515/9783839473931 doi
Critical Whiteness Studies.
Film.
French Multiculturalism.
Gender Studies.
Gender.
Intersectionality.
Media Studies.
Métissage.
Postcolonial Theory.
Postcolonialism.
Republican Gaze.
Romance Studies.
White Femininity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Critical Whiteness Studies. Film. French Multiculturalism. Gender Studies. Gender. Intersectionality. Media Studies. Métissage. Postcolonial Theory. Postcolonialism. Republican Gaze. Romance Studies. White Femininity.
Mixed Feelings in France : White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy / Ewelina Pepiak. - 1 online resource (330 p.) - Film .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- Introduction -- ‘That’s just terrifying’: Multicultural France and its Representations -- Métissage and White Femininity in the French Representational Regime -- French Multicultural Comedy: an Ambiguous Genre -- Chapter Description -- Reading White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy -- Ethnic and Gender Stereotypes in Film Research -- Postcolonial Theory in France -- Critical Whiteness Studies -- Mixed Feelings: Methodological Investigation -- French and Black. Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Early Multicultural Comedies -- White Femininity as a Narrative Vehicle in Agathe Cléry (Chatiliez, 2008) -- Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s La Première Étoile -- Decomplexed Laughter -- Conclusion: Intersubjective Looking and Comic Effect -- The Universalist Ambivalence of Métissage in Il reste du jambon?/Bacon on the Side (Depetrini, 2010) -- Screening Islam and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy -- Laughing Together? The Right to Cultural Incompetence -- The Hierarchies of Gender -- Conclusion: The Ambivalence of Universalist Rhetoric -- Fortress France and the Limits of Love. Interethnic Spaces in Samba (Nakache and Toledano, 2014) -- Métissage and Citizenship: The Aesthetics of Screening Undocumented Workers -- Samba, or the Ordinariness of Illegalised Immigration -- Alice au pays des papiers.49 White Femininity, Mental Health, and Community Work -- Conclusion: Between Multicultural Comedy and Postcolonial Film -- Stereotyping, Nostalgia, and Postmodern Irony in Philippe de Chauveron’s Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu? -- Contested Aesthetics in Philippe de Chauveron’s Comedies -- The Hierarchies in Representing White Female Characters -- Race, Male Gaze and Comic Relief -- Conclusion: The Republican Perspective and Ambiguous Criticism -- Queering Multicultural Comedy. White Femininity and Métissage in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali 2017) and Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza 2018) -- Queerness in Multicultural Comedy and Neoliberal Rationale -- Bromantic Tropes and Neoliberal Ideology in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali, 2017) -- The Limits of Queering in the Space of Multicultural Romantic Comedy -- ‘C’est quoi une vraie lesbienne?’ Queerness, Unruliness, and Ethnic Stereotyping in Myriam Aziza’s Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza, 2018) -- Conclusion: Retraditionalising White Femininity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aesthetic register by deploying a »republican gaze« - an ironic meta-narrative perspective on ethnic minorities. Ewelina Pepiak analyses how gender and ethnicity are represented in seven contemporary French comedies (2008-2018) including mixed-race couples, focusing on a trope of métissage (biological and cultural mixing) and white femininity. As analyses of ethnic and gender representations remain scarce due to the slow emergence of postcolonial studies in France, this study adds significant insights to the postcolonial debate.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783839473931
10.1515/9783839473931 doi
Critical Whiteness Studies.
Film.
French Multiculturalism.
Gender Studies.
Gender.
Intersectionality.
Media Studies.
Métissage.
Postcolonial Theory.
Postcolonialism.
Republican Gaze.
Romance Studies.
White Femininity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Critical Whiteness Studies. Film. French Multiculturalism. Gender Studies. Gender. Intersectionality. Media Studies. Métissage. Postcolonial Theory. Postcolonialism. Republican Gaze. Romance Studies. White Femininity.