Divine Diamonds: Gender, Embodiment, and Movement in the French Banlieue – Margaret C. Flinn
La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United StatesTwo recent French films (Divines, Benyamina, 2016; Bande de filles, Sciamma), directed by women and featuring racially and ethnically marked girls’ bodies in movement, have achieved notable critical and popular success. Residents of the Parisian banlieue, these girls share a heritage of post/colonial immigration. This talk interrogates how these films represent gendered bodies and how those bodies are offered to be seen, but…