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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782160503321

Autore

Bloom Peter J

Titolo

French colonial documentary [[electronic resource] ] : mythologies of humanitarianism / / Peter J. Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5646-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Classificazione

89.91

Disciplina

070.1/80944

Soggetti

Documentary films - France - History and criticism

France Colonies History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.