Stéphane Narcis

From La Haine to a Queer Reading of the Banlieue: Masculinity, Intimacy, and Social Exclusion in Mathieu Kassovitz’s Film

Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (1995) is often seen as a key film in banlieue cinema and as an important voice in debates about police violence, racial exclusion, and the shortcomings of French republican ideals. This article suggests that the film also deserves a queer cultural studies approach, since it often challenge...