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Rogues, romance, and exoticism in French cinema of the 1930s /
"May 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 war...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison : Lanham, Maryland. :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Exoticism in 1930s France: the colonial and beyond
- Men outside the mainstream. 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
- 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
- Romancing the exotic. 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
- Métissage and cultural repatriation. La dame de Malacca (1937): European frog, exotic prince
- (Re)claiming French identity in La maison du Maltais (1938)
- Esclave blanche (1939): a westerner in the harem
- Redefining exoticist romance
- France imagines the Far East. 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
- 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.