Format:
XVI, 302 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9781844574230
,
1844574245
,
9781844574247
,
1844574237
Series Statement:
Cultural histories of cinema
Content:
"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 imperialism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War"--
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction
,
Great Games: Film, History and Working-through Britain's Colonial Legacy
,
EMPIRE AT WAR. The Last Roll of the Dice: Morning, Noon and Night, Empire and the Historiography of the Crown Film Unit
,
India on Film, 1939-47
,
Official and Amateur: Exploring Information Film in India, 1920s-40s
,
Who Needs a Witch Doctor? African Activists and the Re-imagining of Africa in the 1940s
,
"Johnny Gurkha loves a party": the Colonial Film Archive and the Racial Imaginary of the Worker-warrior
,
FILM/GOVERNMENT/DEVELOPMENT. From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End
,
Images of Empire on Shifting Sands: the Colonial Film Unit in West Africa in the Post-war Period
,
The End of Empire: The Films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya
,
PROJECTING AFRICA. Projecting the Modern Colonial State: Mobile Cinema in Kenya
,
Poverty and Development as Themes in British Films on the Gold Coast, 1927-57
,
Mumbo-jumbo, Magic and Modernity: Africa in British Cinema, 1946-65
,
Dislocations: Some Reflections on the Colonial Compilation Film
,
The Repatriation of Jamaican Film Images
,
Undoing the Colonial Archive
,
The Colonial Regime of Knowledge: Film, Archives and Re-Imaging Colonial Power
,
Perennial Empire: Its ends provide the means for national despotism in Lanka even today
,
Missing the End: Falsehood and Fantasy in Late Colonial Cinema
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Film and the end of empire London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ISBN 9781838715700
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Kolonialismus
;
Film
;
Geschichte 1939-1965
;
Aufsatzsammlung
