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French colonial documentary : mythologies of humanitarianism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author : Bloom, Peter J. (Author)
Format : Book
Language :English
Publisher :University of Minnesota Press, [2008].
Subjects :
Films documentaires > France.
Humanitarisme > Colonies françaises.
Colonies françaises > 20e siècle.
Colonies françaises > Au cinéma.
Documentary films > France > History and criticism.
France > Colonies > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : French colonial documentary
  • 1. Tupi or not Tupi : natural man and the ideology of French colonial documentary
  • 2. Mythologies of the Tirailleurs sénégalais : cinema, shell rock, and French colonial psychiatry
  • 3. The Trans-Saharian Crossing films : colonial cinematic projections of the French automobile
  • 4. Diagnosing invisible agents : between the microbiological and the geographic
  • 5. Infiltrate the crowd with an idea ! Colonial educational cinema and the threat of imitative contagion
  • 6. Humanitarian visions and colonial imperatives : Félix-Louis Regnault, Albert Kahn, and Henri Bergson as semiophore-men
  • Conclusion : the French colonial media apparatus : natural man and the dialectics of Americanization

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