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Dear ListServ Administrator:

Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to
review the book for your listserv. Thanks!

Best wishes,
Stacy Lienemann
Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager
University of Minnesota Press
111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290
Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
612-627-1934
http://www.upress.umn.edu


Examines cinematic colonial stereotyping as the basis for humanitarian
action

FRENCH COLONIAL DOCUMENTARY: Mythologies of Humanitarianism
Peter J. Bloom
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-4628-9 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4629-6 | paperback | $25.00

Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter J.
Bloomıs unexpected analysis reveals how the project of remaking the colonies
in the image of France was integral to its national identity. Bloom focuses
on the promotion of French education efforts, hygienic reform, and new
agricultural techniques in the colonies as a means of renegotiating the
social contract between citizens and the state on an international scale.

"French Colonial Documentary builds on the intertwined histories of colonial
France and public health, with emphasis on the use of film in the context of
preventive medicine. It contributes significantly to critical debates
related to film and colonial history, modern France, and social geography."
‹Steven Ungar, University of Iowa

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the bookıs
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/bloom_french.html

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