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France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and more subtly in the avant-garde writings of René Crevel and Raymond Roussel. In her lively book, Elizabeth Ezra interprets a fascinating array of cultural products to uncover what she terms the "colonial unconscious" of the Jazz Age-the simultaneous attraction and repulsion of exoticism and the double bind of a colonial discourse that foreclosed the possibility of the very assimilation it invited.Ezra situates the apotheosis of French colonialism in relation to both the internal tensions of the colonial project and the competing imperialisms of Great Britain and the United States. Examining both the uses and the limits of psychoanalytic theories of empire, she proposes a reading of French colonialism which, while historically specific, also contributes to our understanding of contemporary culture. The enduring legacy of empire is felt to this day, as Ezra demonstrates in a provocative epilogue on the remarkable similarities between the rhetoric of colonial France and accounts of the French victory in the 1998 World Cup.

Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of culture --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1920-1929 --- France --- Indigenous peoples --- Autochtones --- Colonies --- Race relations --- Politics and government --- Relations raciales --- Politique et gouvernement --- 82.04 --- 316.323.82 --- -Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Literaire thema's --- Kolonialisme. Sociologie van kolonialisme. Sociologie van ontwikkelingslanden --- -France --- -Colonies --- -Race relations --- -Indigenous peoples --- Colonies. --- -Literaire thema's --- -82.04 --- 316.323.82 Kolonialisme. Sociologie van kolonialisme. Sociologie van ontwikkelingslanden --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- -Sociology of minorities --- -316.323.82 Kolonialisme. Sociologie van kolonialisme. Sociologie van ontwikkelingslanden --- Aboriginal peoples --- -Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Race relations. --- Adivasis --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Falanxi --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- 法蘭西 --- 프랑스 --- Ethnische Beziehungen --- Kultur --- Kolonie --- Rassenbeziehung --- Kolonialismus --- Politics and government. --- French colonies. --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Repräsentation (Soziologie) --- Geschichte --- France. --- Politik

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This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic depictions of the ways in which human beings are prosthetically engaged with life beyond the self in the global age: by hyperconsumption; by structures of racial and sexual objectification that reduce people designated as "others" to objects of fascination, sexual gratification, warfare, or labor; and by information technology that replaces human agency with encoding.Consumer culture, a key feature of globalization, posits that we must supplement ourselves with commodities without which we would otherwise be incomplete: but these prostheses, rather than enhancing us, end up creating the insufficiencies they were meant to overcome. We are engulfed by objects, to the extent that we ourselves are becoming objectified. At the same time, objects, especially technological objects, are becoming increasingly autonomous, assuming roles that were once the preserve of human agency. We are becoming the objects of globalization, and cinema imaginatively represents this transformation, but it also offers us the possibility of retaining our humanity in the process.

Object (Philosophy) in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Exoticism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures and globalization. --- Setting and scenery.

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Film --- Transnationalism --- Transnationalisme au cinéma --- In motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Transnationalisme au cinéma

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