... of the European New Woman within a wider colonial context. To do so, it considers both the cultivation of Kreutzberg’s media persona and her representation of indigenous Balinese women, who appeared in the most widely circulated images from the expedition. If the now lost film sparked a short-lived media...

... of her own work. Joséphine Baker Paris cinema film video essay Négritude Colonialism African Americans France French film Zouzou © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 In Joséphine Baker Watches Herself , I create dialogues between clips of Baker and excerpts...

... implicated within the colonial project, such as bodily piety and public health. This juncture between consumer culture, cinema, and discourses of cleanliness places the cinema within an uncanny archive of aspirational embodiment that evokes older orders of power: accounts of cinemagoing measured theaters...