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