French colonial documentary : mythologies of humanitarianism / Peter J. Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Peter J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--France--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

France--Colonies--History--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter J. Bloom's unexpected analysis reveals how the project of remaking the colonies in the image of France was integral to its national identity. Bloom focuses on the promotion of French education efforts, hygienic reform, and new agricultural techniques in the colonies as a means of renegotiating the social contract between citizens and the state on an international scale.

Contents:

Tupi or not Tupi : natural man and the ideology of French Colonial documentary

Mythologies of the Tirailleurs senegalais : cinema, shell shock, and French Colonial psychiatry

Trans-saharan crossing films : colonial cinematic projections of the French automobile

Diagnosing invisible agents : between the microbiological and the geographic

Infiltrate the crowd with an idea! Colonial educational cinema and the threat of imitative contagion

Humanitarian visions and colonial imperatives : Felix-Louis Regnault, Albert Kahn, and Henri Bergson as semiophore-men

Conclusion : The French colonial media apparatus : natural man and the dialectics of Americanization

Appendix : Archives and film and media references.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5646-0

OCLC:

476167478