‘That’s just terrifying’: Multicultural France and its Representations No access Pages 11 - 16
Métissage and White Femininity in the French Representational Regime No access Pages 16 - 25
French Multicultural Comedy: an Ambiguous Genre No access Pages 25 - 31
Chapter Description No access Pages 31 - 34
Ethnic and Gender Stereotypes in Film Research No access Pages 39 - 46
Postcolonial Theory in France No access Pages 46 - 49
Critical Whiteness Studies No access Pages 49 - 53
Mixed Feelings: Methodological Investigation No access Pages 53 - 60
White Femininity as a Narrative Vehicle in Agathe Cléry (Chatiliez, 2008) No access Pages 64 - 86
Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s La Première Étoile No access Pages 87 - 100
Decomplexed Laughter No access Pages 100 - 102
Conclusion: Intersubjective Looking and Comic Effect No access Pages 102 - 104
Screening Islam and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy No access Pages 106 - 109
Laughing Together? The Right to Cultural Incompetence No access Pages 109 - 121
The Hierarchies of Gender No access Pages 121 - 131
Conclusion: The Ambivalence of Universalist Rhetoric No access Pages 132 - 134
Métissage and Citizenship: The Aesthetics of Screening Undocumented Workers No access Pages 137 - 140
Samba, or the Ordinariness of Illegalised Immigration No access Pages 140 - 153
Alice au pays des papiers. White Femininity, Mental Health, and Community Work No access Pages 153 - 163
Conclusion: Between Multicultural Comedy and Postcolonial Film No access Pages 163 - 170
Contested Aesthetics in Philippe de Chauveron’s Comedies No access Pages 173 - 176
The Hierarchies in Representing White Female Characters No access Pages 176 - 185
Race, Male Gaze and Comic Relief No access Pages 185 - 203
Conclusion: The Republican Perspective and Ambiguous Criticism No access Pages 203 - 206
Queerness in Multicultural Comedy and Neoliberal Rationale No access Pages 209 - 211
Bromantic Tropes and Neoliberal Ideology in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali, 2017) No access Pages 212 - 213
The Limits of Queering in the Space of Multicultural Romantic Comedy No access Pages 213 - 224
‘C’est quoi une vraie lesbienne?’ Queerness, Unruliness, and Ethnic Stereotyping in Myriam Aziza’s Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza, 2018) No access Pages 224 - 232
Conclusion: Retraditionalising White Femininity No access Pages 232 - 236
