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 Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org