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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.
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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.
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