Framing the Nation Documentary Film in Interwar France

by Murray Levine, Alison J.

• ISBN13: 9780826431875
• ISBN10: 0826431879
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France argues that, between World Wars I and II, documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative to include rural France and the colonies. This book mines a significant body of virtually unknown films and manuscripts for their insight into revisions of French national identity in the aftermath of the Great War. From 1918 onwards, government institutions sought to advance social programs they believed were crucial to national regeneration. They turned to documentary film, a new form of mass communication, to do so.

Author Biography

Alison J. Murray Levine is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Truth Peddling: Documentary Film in Interwar France	p. 12
The Revolt of the Beets: Educational Film in Rural France	p. 36
"Making the Fiction of the Empire a Reality": Educational Film in the French Colonies	p. 56
"Mysterious and Subtle Cheesemaking": Filming the French Regions	p. 89
"Carcasses of Manioc-Eaters": Filming Colonial France	p. 115
Recycling Rural Images: The Vichy Propaganda Machine	p. 150
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 215
Film Index	p. 221
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