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Film and the End of Empire: Cultural Histories of Cinema

Editat de Colin Maccabe, Lee Grieveson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2011
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 andthe ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844574230
ISBN-10: 1844574237
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 27 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:2011
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția British Film Institute
Seria Cultural Histories of Cinema

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Brings together world-renowned scholars from around the world to address, for the first time, the intricate connections between cinema and colonialism in the twentieth century

Notă biografică

LEE GRIEVESON is Director of Film Studies at University College London.COLIN MACCABEis Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of the London Consortium

Cuprins

Introduction: Film at the End of Empire; L.Grieveson .- Great Games: Film, History and Working-Through Britain's Colonial Legacy; P.Gilroy.- PART I: EMPIRE AT WAR.- The Last Roll of the Dice: Morning, Noon and Night, Empire, and the Historiography of the Crown Film Unit; M.Stollery.- India on Film: 1939-1947; R. Osborne.- Official and Amateur: Exploring Information Film in India, 1920s-1940s; R.Vasudevan.- Who Needs a Witch Doctor? African Activists and the Re-Imagining of Africa in the 1940s; P.Zachernuk.- 'Johnny Gurkha Loves a Party': The Colonial Film Archive and the Racial Imaginary of the Worker-Warrior; V.Ware.- PART II FILM/GOVERNMENT/DEVELOPMENT.- From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End; T.Rice.- Images of Empire on Shifting Sands: the Colonial Film Unit in West Africa in the Post-War Period; R.Smyth.- The End of Empire: The Films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya; H.Muthalib.- PART III: PROJECTING AFRICA.- Projecting the Modern Colonial State: Mobile Cinema in Kenya; C.Ambler.- Poverty and Development as Themes in British Films on the Gold Coast, 1927-1957; G.Austin.- Mumbo-Jumbo, Magic and Modernity: Africa in British Cinema, 1946-1965;

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The number of people living under British colonial rule in the two decades after 1945 shrank from 700 million to 5 million, amid the fractious and blood-soaked decomposition of the largest and most ambitious imperial venture in human history. What roles did film play across the period 1939–65, in the face of rapidly changing geopolitics? What were the varied ways in which film registered and projected colonial and neocolonial discourse and practice? What do these films now reveal about the fantasies and realities of colonial rule and its ostensible dissolution?Film and the End of Empirebrings together leading international scholars to address these questions.

Contributors examine the enmeshing of cultural representation and political and economic control, and demonstrate the ways in which state and non-state actors harnessed film to instructional and pedagogical functions, putting media to work in order to shape the attitudes and conduct of populations to sustain colonial and neocolonial governmental order. They focus on a wide range of material, including newsreels; state-produced documentaries; corporate-financed non-fiction films; and narrative fiction films telling stories about the past and present of imperialist endeavour. At the same time, they address the institutions that were formed to foster colonial film, and develop new non-theatrical forms of global distribution and exhibition.Film and the End of Empireopens up a fascinating new area of film history and will be indispensable reading for those interested in global cinema history, didactic and non-theatrical cinema, film and geopolitics, and those interested in Britain's colonial history and its continuing legacy. This book was produced in conjunction with a major new website housing freely available materials and films relating to British colonial cinema, www.colonialfilm.org.uk, and a companion volume entitledEmpire and Film.