Screening Youth

Explores how the topic of 'youth' has inspired Francophone filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors’ visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose