La Haine
Background Information
Import
workers
HLM
Housing
shortage
Life in “la Cité”
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High unemployment
Poverty
Immigrants
Limited transportation
Criminal behavior, especially gang-related
(although murder is NOT common)
• “Economic Segregation” or Racism
Economic Segregation and Racism
• Racial profiling by the police.
• Problems getting a job, or finding an apartment,
or even entering a nightclub because of their
names or skin color, although such discrimination
is officially illegal.
• Anti-discrimination laws are rarely enforced, and
even when they are, punishment tends to be
nominal.
• "Identity Controls" — unannounced places where
police demand identity papers from whomever
they choose. Witnesses to these identity controls
confirm that only nonwhites are commonly asked
for their papers.
France is disintegrating into a
"territorial and social apartheid"
because
"certain French citizens are treated
as second-class citizens, if not the
leprous members of the national
community". --Tariq Ramadan
Summary statistics—riots of 2005
• Started: 5:20pm on Thursday, 27 October 2005
• Towns affected: 274
• Property damage: 8,973 vehicles (Not including
buildings)
• Monetary damage: Estimated at €200 Million.
• Arrests: 2,888
• Deaths: 1
• Police and firefighters injured: 126
Video Clip: Riots in 2007
“Youth” Films
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“Coming Of Age”
Musicals
Animation
Horror
Food for thought
Cult
American Youth Film Conventions
• proms, alcohol, illegal substances, high school, parties
and all-night raves, losing one's virginity, relationships,
social groups and cliques, high school, and American
pop-culture
• Stereotypes:
The Jock
The Princess or The Plastic
The Geek
The Rebel
The Misfit or The Outcast
The Average Girl/Boy (the boy/girl next door)
The New Girl/Boy
American Influence
• Scarface 1983
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgAjxiu2O
2M
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2FOkJRzn8
• Taxi Driver 1976 trailer
• mirror monologue
• final scene