An edition of Film and the end of empire
(2011)
Film and the end of empire
by Lee Grieveson
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"In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperalism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War"--
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Motion pictures, Great Britain. Colonial Film Unit, Documentary films, Motion pictures and the war, Historical films, Great Britain, Imperialism in motion pictures, World War, 1939-1945, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General, Colonies, History, Motion pictures in propaganda, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Motion pictures, great britain, Motion pictures, historyPlaces
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Lee Grieveson
Great Games: Film, History and Working-through Britain's Colonial Legacy / Paul Gilroy
EMPIRE AT WAR. The Last Roll of the Dice: Morning, Noon and Night, Empire and the Historiography of the Crown Film Unit / Martin Stollery
India on Film, 1939-47 / Richard Osborne
Official and Amateur: Exploring Information Film in India, 1920s-40s / Ravi Vasudevan
Who Needs a Witch Doctor? African Activists and the Re-imagining of Africa in the 1940s / Philip Zachernuk
"Johnny Gurkha loves a party": the Colonial Film Archive and the Racial Imaginary of the Worker-warrior / Vron Ware
FILM/GOVERNMENT/DEVELOPMENT. From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End / Tom Rice
Images of Empire on Shifting Sands: the Colonial Film Unit in West Africa in the Post-war Period / Rosaleen Smyth
The End of Empire: The Films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya / Hassan Muthalib
PROJECTING AFRICA. Projecting the Modern Colonial State: Mobile Cinema in Kenya / Charles Ambler
Poverty and Development as Themes in British Films on the Gold Coast, 1927-57 / Gareth Austin
Mumbo-jumbo, Magic and Modernity: Africa in British Cinema, 1946-65 / Wendy Webster
Dislocations: Some Reflections on the Colonial Compilation Film / Laura Mulvey
AFTERTHOUGHTS ON COLONIAL FILM. Notes on the Making of Black Balance: an Ongoing Film Essay on the Colonial Archive / Filipa César
The Repatriation of Jamaican Film Images / Franklyn St. Juste
Undoing the Colonial Archive / Isaac Julien
The Colonial Regime of Knowledge: Film, Archives and Re-Imaging Colonial Power / Anthony Bogues
Perennial Empire: Its ends provide the means for national despotism in Lanka even today / Arjuna Parakrama
Missing the End: Falsehood and Fantasy in Late Colonial Cinema / Francis Gooding.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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