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    Identity and Immigration in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather II and Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law
    (Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2015) CHAOUCHE Karima
    This dissertation presents a comparative analysis between the Godfather II released in 1974 and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and Outside the Law released in 2010 and directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It addresses two themes, identity and immigration through two perspectives: a new historicist and a post colonial. The aim of a comparative study between the Godfather II (1974) and Outside the Law (2010) is to provide the historical and immediate context in which the two films could be discussed and compared with a focus on the representation of the history of immigration and its impact on the immigrants’ sense of identity and belonging in the United States and France. This dissertation discovers that Rachid Bouchareb’s stylization of the Godfather II is based on the similarities between the two migrations and the emergence ethnic minority group cinemas against the mainstream culture in a context of ethnic revival in the Godfather II and the debate upon national identity in the case of Outside the Law. Through highlighting the tragic stories of two immigrant families pursuing two similar exile trajectories from their displacement and separation from their homeland countries, their settlement in foreign countries to the emergence of conflicts through the process of violent rebellion or organized crime. However the two films stand for two completely separated identities and the appropriation of the gangster characters in Outside the Law is only meant for dramatic purposes.