Reframing Difference: Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France'Reframing difference' is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, 'cinma beur' (films by young directors of Maghrebi descent) and 'cinma de banlieue' (films set in France's disadvantaged outer city housing estates). These films mobilise the voices and narratives of France's most stigmatised postcolonial others to address issues of ethnicity and difference which are central to today's debates about what it means