Description
Book SynopsisIn this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation’s past and present.
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
