Through the prisms of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, "French Minority Cinema "explores key questions of identity and social interaction in the context of republican France, across two significant 'minority' cinemas: "cinema de banlieue "and gay cinema. It offers the first comprehensive parallel study of these two bodies of film and their inter-relations, examining issues of national cinema and identity and the problematic status of minorities within the contemporary Republic. Against a backdrop of political and media debates on the PACS, parity, the "affaire du voile "and the French...