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

• Author: Bloom, Peter J
• Publisher: Minneapolis, MN London : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
  
• Subjects: Films documentaires -- Histoire et critique -- France;
  Humanitarisme -- Colonies françaises;
  Colonies françaises -- 20e siècle;
  Colonies françaises -- Au cinéma;
  Documentary films -- History and criticism -- France;
  France -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
• Includes: Copyright : the Regents of the University of Minnesota, 2008
  Filmogr. p. 208-215. Réf. bibliogr. p. 217-255. Index
  
• lds03: 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
  
• Language: English
  
• Creation Date: 2008
  
• Identifier: 978-0-8166-4628-9 ; 0-8166-4628-7 ; 978-0-8166-4629-6 ; 0-8166-4629-5
  
• Format: 1 vol. (XIII-265 p.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. en coul. ; 27 cm