Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s

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Produktbeschreibung

Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure. These films often served as visual postcards from the French empire, which enjoyed an unprecedented visibility in domestic popular culture between the world wars. But the public appetite for the exotic also transcended imperial borders. Exoticist films displayed landscapes and different that lay beyond the metropole, many of which were not subject to European rule. This broad conception of the exotic meant that French narrative cinema represented both colonial and non-colonial settings and populations, developing a coherent set of tropes that were shaped, yet not entirely defined, by the politics of imperial rule. Empire alone cannot address the full range of the French exoticist imaginary that was projected onto movie screens in the 30s. Only by venturing beyond imperial boundaries can we fully understand how the French saw non-Westerners and, by extension, how they saw themselves during this tumultuous decade. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s proposes a critical framework for exoticist cinema that includes and exceeds the limits of empire. From rogue colons to the metisse in love, from the deserts of North Africa to the streets of Shanghai, this book identifies and analyzes recurring figures, common settings, major stars, plot devices, and narrative outcomes that dominated exoticist cinema at its popular peak.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781611476132
• ISBN-10: 1611476135
• Artikelnr.: 36984708

Autorenporträt

By Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Exoticism in 1930s France: The Colonial and Beyond
PART ONE: Men Outside the Mainstream Chapter 1: Jean Gabin, le cafard, and
Western Solidarity La Bandera (1935): Cultural Cohesion and Colonial
Mercenaries Pépé le Moko (1937) and the Multiethnic Exotic Le Messager
(1937): Failure to Adapt Chapter 2: Assimilation Anxiety and Rogue Colons
Men Who Stayed Too Long El Guelmouna, marchand de sable (1931): Rivalry
(and Russians) in Rural Algeria Amok (1934): Cultural Readmission at All
Costs L'Esclave blanc (1936): Segregationist Parable PART TWO: Romancing
the Exotic Chapter 3: Tragedy and Triumph for Interracial Love Caïn,
aventure des mers exotiques (1930) and Baroud (1932): Lasting Love in the
Colonies Le Simoun (1933) and Yamilé sous les cèdres (1939): Triumph,
Tragedy, Responsibility Women's Agency and Exoticist Romance Chapter 4:
Métissage and Cultural Repatriation La Dame de Malacca (1937): European
Frog, Exotic Prince (Re)claiming French Identity in La Maison du Maltais
(1938) L'Esclave blanche (1939): A Westerner in the Harem Redefining
Exoticist Romance PART THREE: France Imagines the Far East Chapter 5:
Shanghai Fantasies and the Geishas of Joinville Mollenard (1938) and Le
Drame de Shanghaï (1938): Exiled in (and from) the East Yoshiwara (1936)
and La Bataille (1934): Lovers and Fighters in the Land of the Rising Sun
Chapter 6: Sessue Hayakawa's French Resurrection, 1936-1939 Forfaiture
(1937): A Legend Revised, a Legacy Reborn Patrouille blanche (1939/1942):
Bringing the Other Back Home Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939/1942): The Exotic
Father Exoticism in Transition L'Homme du Niger (1940): Patriotism and
Paternalism in Africa Malaria (1943): Imperial Stasis Descendants of
Interwar Exoticism from Decolonization to the New Century Annotated
Filmography Bibliography Index