Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:25:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: J Castonguay <jcast-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Re: early film & colonial studies


Schwartz's recent book _Spectacular Realities : Early Mass Culture
in fin-de-siecle Paris_ (Berkeley : University of California Press,
1998) might be useful too.  Shohat and Stam's chapter on the
"Imperial Imaginary" from _Unthinking Eurocentrism_ (Routledge, 1994)
seems right on target for your purposes as well since they discuss the
Lumiere brothers and Melies.  Good luck, Jim

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James Castonguay - jcast-AT-umich.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor
Film and Video Studies - Communication Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
SCS Webmaster - http://www.cinemastudies.org
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On 6 Oct 1998, Vincent T. Cannon Jr. wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
>
> I am in the early stages of a project on early French film culture
>(Lumiere, Melies) and its interesections with discourses of colonialism
>and imperialism.  The project, which focuses on the period from 1895-1914
>(with special focus on the artisanal period of emergent cinema), is very
>much concerned with both fin-de-siécle French (popular) cultural history
>and with considering spectatorship as a material process of production
>that involves the individual spectator, the text, and the crowd and is
>situated within (both a product and a constitutive part of) a
>constellation of discourses that literally "create" the body of the
>spectator.
>
>
> I know it all seems rather vague right now, and that's why I ask your
>assistance.  If there are any texts on imperialism and early cinema
>and/or photography AND ESPECIALLY popular culture and intellectual
>currents in France during the period to which one or any of you could
>direct me, I would be very appreciative.  I am familiar with the obvious
>"foundation" texts (Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Hall);  it is more specifically
>relevant work that I seek.  Thank you in advance
>
>
> best
>
> vince
>
>
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