Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France

Acknowlegments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS By definition, a volume such as this is the fruit of collective labor. Our most sincere thanks go to the contributing authors, whose incisive and original reflections compel us to share their insights with the reader. As with many projects,this one too began with a day of reflection in 2007,organized by Carrie Tarr in conjunction with “Beur Is Beautiful,” a retrospective she curated for ArteEast’s CinemaEast Film Festival in New York City. We thank Livia Alexander and Rasha Salti of ArteEast and the French Cultural Services for organizing and cohosting the festival under the aegis of which we first met. To Carrie, we are very thankful not only for her indefatigable work as a pioneer in the field but also for her generosity and effort in bringing together scholars as well as filmmakers, allowing us to engage with the general public. Her encouragement was instrumental in urging us to undertake this project. Publishing a book is akin to filmmaking: this work too is a product of the commitment and combined efforts of several individuals and institutions who, although neither authors nor editors, lent their support and expertise in invaluable ways. Without them this volume would not have materialized. We thank Heather Lundine and Bridget Barry of the University of Nebraska Press for their interest in the project and for their guidance through the publishing process. Our sincere thanks to Lona Dearmont for meticulously copyediting and to Paulina Velasco for proofreading the manuscript. We are very grateful to Louisa MacKenzie and Mark McKinney for giving us valuable feedback at various stages of the project. Devin Griffin’s eye for detail helped us immensely with preparation of the manuscript, and Susan Wilson’s technical support with illustrations was essential. Last, but not least, we are indebted to the Gabriel Snyder Beck Fund at Vassar College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University for providing research support for this volume. SCREENING INTEGRATION ...