Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction (Dina Sherzer)
• 1. Imperial Frame: Film Industry and Colonial Representation (Martine Astier Loutfi)
• 2. Split Screens: La Maison du Maltais as Text and Document (Steven Ungar)
• 3. Whither the Colonial Question? Jean Renoir's The River (Nandi Bhatia)
• 4. Regarding Rouch: The Recasting of West African Colonial Culture (Paul Stoller)
• 5. Le Colonial Féminin: Women Directors Interrogate French Cinema (Catherine Portuges)
• 6. Empire as Myth and Memory (Naomi Greene)
• 7. Filmic Memorial and Colonial Blues: Indochina in Contemporary French Cinema (Panivong Norindr)
• 8. Third Cinema or Third Degree: The "Rachid System" in Serge Meynard's L'Oeil au beurre noir (Mireille Rosello)
• 9. Decolonizing Images: Soleil O and the Cinema of Med Hondo (Madeleine Cottenet-Hage)
• 10. Post-Tricolor African Cinema: Toward a Richer Vision (John D. H. Downing)
• 11. Race Matters and Matters of Race: Interracial Relationships in Colonial and Postcolonial Films (Dina Sherzer)
• About the Authors
• Index

About the Author

Dina Sherzer is Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas of Austin.