Romain Chareyron is an Associate Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a contemporary French and Francophone cinema specialist, with interests that branch into Francophone culture and contemporary French society. His research primarily focuses on gender and sexuality, the representation of disability, and film genres in contemporary French cinema. He edited Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition (2023) and co-edited Screening Youth: Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema (2019). His current project is investigating the representation of disability in French cinema. Gilles Viennot is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Arkansas. His areas of study include: contemporary French literature (with an emphasis on Michel Houellebecq); the connections between neoliberalism, technology and family; as well as cinema and TV shows.

• 1. Disparate Lives: Representations of Youth in French and Francophone Cinema; Romain Chareyron and Gilles Viennot 2. Un vrai ‘teen film’ français? The Contemporary Adolescent Genre in French Cinema; Gemma Edney3. Youth and Gender Panic in Ma Vie en rose and Tomboy; Jeri English4. Bargaining the Body: Love, Death and Rites of Passage in Three Films by François Ozon; Ericka Knudson5. Repetition and Difference: The Representation of Youth in the Films of Céline Sciamma; Karine Chevalier6. Mia Hansen-Løve, Postfeminism in France, and the Melancholic Girl; Fiona Handyside7. Frames of Desire and Otherness: Queer Adolescents Caught In-Between France and the Maghreb; Walter S. Temple8. 'A Child of the Ruins': Youthful Disaffection and the 'Making Of' the Terrorist; Maria Flood9. ‘Envole-moi’: Gender and Representations of the ‘banlieue’ in Abd Al Malik’s Qu’Allah bénisse la France and Sylvie Ohayon’s Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone; Jocelyn A. Wright10. (Re)Framing Youth and Identity in the Classroom in Être et avoir and Entre les murs; Aubrey Korneta11. Young Love and Everyday Freedom: Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Faute à Voltaire and La Vie d’Adèle; Kathryn Chaffee12. Anthem for (Doomed) Youth: War, AIDS, and the Queer Autobiographical Cinema of André Téchiné; Claire Boyle13. ‘Je veux promouvoir le vivre ensemble’: Youth and Friendship in L’Auberge espagnole (2002), Les Poupées russes (2005) and casse-tête chinois (2013)"; Ben McCann14. Catherine Breillat’s Maiden trilogy; Juliette Feyel15. Dismembering and remembering childhood in Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin (2014); Elizabeth Geary Keohane

[...] an innovative text that gathers together diverse approaches to the notion of youth in French-language cinema.