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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... Jews and the separatist impulses of the settlers . United in a desire to block Jewish assimilation , the heterogeneous pieds noirs vacillated between identity as French citizens and identity as New Latin " whites . " Their racially ...
... Jews had lived in North Africa since the Roman diaspora ; a second wave arrived in 1492 , expelled after seven centuries in Muslim Spain . The AIU helped this thoroughly Arabized , Sephardic Jewish com- munity to convert its cultural ...
... Jews . Messali , who refused to collaborate with the collaborators , was sentenced in March 1941 to sixteen more years . As a result , Algerian Muslims and Jews drew closer . Doctor Mo- hammed Loufrani , a key proponent of Jewish ...