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Choosing the thriller to portray a jihadist cell that aims at perpetrating several terrorist attacks in Paris and other places allows Nicolas Boukhrief, the author of Made in France, to nuance the way radical Islam is being depicted in the media. Even within a jihadist cell, Muslims are not seen as a community who thinks as one, but as individuals who have other values, interests besides their religion. Further, a huis-clos allows the film director to demonstrate that jihad is not just a transnational and networked phenomenon, but can be the outcome of local individuals driven by fanaticism.
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Saveau, P. (2021). Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France: Nuancing the Mediatized Approach to Islamic Terrorism. In: Mielusel, R. (eds) Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81234-8_5
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