Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed. Tracing the visual rhetoric of

This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading historians in t

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South an

French colonial Louisiana has failed to occupy a place in the historic consciousness of the United States, perhaps owing to its short duration (1699--1762) and

The documentary biography of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine, who served throughout New France, sheds new light on the