Rebels with a cause

What is it about?

Moroccan filmmakers have chronicled social change and youth’s quest for freedom and postcolonial agency since the early 1990s. This article examines the representation of Moroccan youth on screen through a close analysis of two recent films which deal with the alternative cultural scene in Casablanca at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Why is it important?

The films analysed in this article foreground the agency of youth through a focus on their alternative constructions of postcolonial subjectivity in a cultural scene that marries local and global influences in the street, on stage and on screen. What is ultimately reclaimed on the screen is not only urban space for an age group but also the space of justice for an entire society.