Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Truth Peddling: Documentary Film in Interwar France -- Chapter 3: The Revolt of the Beets: Educational Film in Rural France -- Chapter 4: "Making the Fiction of the Empire a Reality": Educational Film in the French Colonies -- Chapter 5: "Mysterious and Subtle Cheesemaking": Filming the French Regions -- Chapter 6: "Carcasses of Manioc-Eaters": Filming Colonial France -- Chapter 7: Recycling Rural Images: The Vichy Propaganda Machine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Film Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- I -- J -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.