Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign,
and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed.
Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism,
Peter J. Bloom's unexpected analysis reveals how the project of
remaking the colonies in the image of France was integral to its
national identity.
French Colonial Documentary investigates how the promise of
universal citizenship rights in France was projected onto the
colonies as a form of evolutionary interventionism. Bloom focuses
on the promotion of French education efforts, hygienic reform, and
new agricultural techniques in the colonies as a means of
renegotiating the social contract between citizens and the state on
an international scale. Bloom's insightful readings disclose the
pervasiveness of colonial iconography, including the relationship
between "natural man" and colonial subjectivity; representations of
the Senegalese Sharpshooters as obedient, brave, and sexualized
colonial subjects; and the appeal of exotic adventure narratives in
the trans-Saharan film genre.
Examining the interconnection between French documentary realism
and the colonial enterprise, Bloom demonstrates how the colonial
archive is crucial to contemporary debates about multiculturalism
in France.
Peter J. Bloom is associate professor of film and media studies at
the University of California-Santa Barbara.y debates about
multiculturalism in France.
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