Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultural Hegemony in French-Algerian History Chapter 2: The Form of Rule in Context Chapter 3: Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: La Mission Civilizatrice and Le Cafard in L'Atlantide Chapter 4: French Cinema's Other First Wave: The Political and Racial Economics of Filming the Colonies Chapter 5: Tourists, Rebels and Settlers: French-Moroccan Film in Decline, 1926-1931 Chapter 6: French Colonial Film before and after Itto (1934): From Berber Myth to Race War Chapter 7: The Thin White Line of Western Civilization: Foreign Legion Movies, Masculinity, and Family Life Chapter 8: Poetic Realism's Cinema Colonial: Native Sons of the Popular Front? Contents Conclusion: Political Consequences of Blind Spots and Privilege Notes Bibliography Filmography: Feature Films Cites Index
A thoughtful and valuable work of history that addresses the relationship between imperialism and French film in the interwar years. Slavin forces the reader to reconsider the basis upon which French imperial rule in North Africa was advocated and advanced, resulting in a substantially new contribution to our understanding of French history in these years. -- Michael Miller, Syracuse University An important and ambitious book on the history of colonial cinema, one that will be consulted for a good number of years. -- Tom Conley, Harvard University
David Henry Slavin is a visiting assistant professor of history at Knox College.
Slavin takes most of us into unchartered territory, and as such his book represents an important contribution to the study of French colonial culture. -- Owen White H-France Book Reviews Exhaustive and insightful... It deftly combines in a single, sweeping breath a thorough discussion of a dozen period films with a meticulous examination of the historical context of their production as seen from often divergent political perspectives. -- Hedi-Abdel Jaouad French Review 2003 In this impressive and carefully researched book, David Henry Slavin shows how French popular culture helped create and sustain the racial hierarchies that colonial rule and the mission civilitrice required... This book will surely serve for a very long time as an indispensable guide to French colonial cinema. -- Michael Provence Histoire Sociale 2003 The book's strengths lie in its detailed and informative contextualization of French colonial cinema, especially those films made in or about the Maghreb, and in its ability to reveal general trends and 'blind spots' that characterise these films. Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies Slavin's enthusiasm for his topic and his determinedly critical stance toward French racism are admirable. He raises a range of fascinating questions and engages the reader's interest in French colonial history and film. -- Heike Schmidt American Historical Review 2004
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