Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler MythsJohns Hopkins University Press, 2001年10月9日 - 320 頁 North Africa has captured the French imagination for centuries and shaped it in ways the French themselves have yet to acknowledge. The advent of cinema allowed artists and propagandists alike to exploit a new medium in their romanticized depictions of France's imperial mission in Algeria and Morocco. The films of the 1920s expressed a cautious optimism about the prospect of cooperation between Europeans and Muslims—with Europeans dominant. By the 1930s, however, attitudes toward indigenous North Africans had hardened. In response to demands for liberal reform in Algeria, French settlers appealed to racial solidarity and protection of white womanhood. The films of this period warned against the perils of miscegenation and portrayed the Foreign Legion and the settlers as the defenders of white, European civilization's frontiers. In Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, David Henry Slavin uses such key colonial-era films as L'Atlantide (1921; remade in 1932) and Pépé le Moko (1937) to document how the French cinema reflected the changing policies and values of French colonialism in the interwar period. Slavin is most interested in the "blind spots" within these films, the avoidance or denial of colonial realities that becomes apparent when sound-era remakes are compared with their original silent versions. The reworking of history and the interplay of history and memory evident in this process still hinders France's ability to confront the legacy of its colonial past. |
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... Itto , 1934 From Berber Myth to Race War Lyauteyisme breathed its last with Itto , a stunning film that chronicled Berber resistance to French colonization . Made in 1934 , it was the last and arguably the best of the Moroccan - based ...
... Itto In the 1930s , French promotion and distribution of films was haphaz- ard at best , in sharp contrast with the American system of major film studios with large advertising budgets and networks of distributors . Despite the ...
... Itto's actions drive the plot , both here and elsewhere . The film , which opens with Hamou on horseback , the absolute center of attention of the crowd around him and of the camera's focus , ends with Itto and Hamou standing side by ...