Film and the End of Empire (Cultural Histories of Cinema) （1ST）

Grieveson, Lee (EDT)/ MacCabe, Colin (EDT)

British Film Inst（2011/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 302 p.／サイズ 27 b/w photo.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781844574247
• DDC分類 070.18

Full Description

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.

Contents

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;