Coming of Age in the Hood:: The Diasporic Youth Film and Questions of Genre

Daniela Berghahn

Coming of Age in the Hood: The Diasporic Youth Film and Questions of Genre

Department of Media Arts

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Abstract

The chapter examines contemporary Turkish German, Maghrebi French and British Asian films depicting the identity struggles of children and adolescents from ethnic minority backgrounds. Applying a quintessentially American critical paradigm, genre criticism, to European diasporic coming-of-age films, the chapter explores to what extent these films conform to the generic conventions of the youth film (including African American 'hood films' of the 1990s) and how they contribute to the extension and hybridisation of the youth film (or 'teenpic') genre.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	European Cinema in Motion
Subtitle of host publication	Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe
Editors	Daniela Berghahn , Claudia Sternberg
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	235-255
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	978-0-230-27898-1
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2010

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Migrant and diasporic cinema in contemporary Europe
Berghahn, D. (PI)
Arts & Humanities Res Coun AHRC
1/10/06 → 31/01/08
Project: Research

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Coming of Age in the Hood: The Diasporic Youth Film and Questions of Genre. / Berghahn, Daniela.
European Cinema in Motion : Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe. ed. / Daniela Berghahn ; Claudia Sternberg. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. p. 235-255.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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