Projecting empire
Subtitle: imperialism and popular cinema
By: James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull
Contributors: Cull, Nicholas John
Series: Cinema and society series; Cinema and society
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781845119409
Description: Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. This study of imperialism and cinema maps the history of empire cinema in both Hollywood and Britain through a series of case studies of popular films including biopics, adventures, literary adaptations, melodramas, comedies and documentaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (p. [225]-231).
Table of contents: title: Imperialism and popular cinema : a survey; title: Technicolor empire : The four feathers (1939); title: America's Kipling : Gunga Din (1939); title: The British Empire at war : Burma victory (1945); title: Facing the stampede of decolonization : Elephant walk (1954); title: The watershed : Lawrence of Arabia (1962); title: Pursuing respect : The naked prey (1965); title: Camping up the empire : Follow that camel (1967), Carry on up the Khyber (1968) and Carry on up the jungle (1970); title: The imperial trap : The man who would be king (1975); title: Calling Dr Jones : Raiders of the lost ark (1981); title: The Raj revival : Gandhi (1982); title: Imperial adventure redux : Three kings (1999).