French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism
ISBN: 9780816656462
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Documentary films -- France -- History and criticism; France -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century;

Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter J. BloomOCOs 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.


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