Empire and film
By: edited by Lee Grieveson, Colin MacCabe
Contributors: British Film Institute
Series: Cultural histories of cinema; Cultural histories of cinema
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781844574223; 9781844574216
Subjects: Motion pictures; Imperialism in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'To take ship to India and see a naked man spearing fish in blue water': watching film to mourn the end of empire / Colin macCabe; title: Early cinematic encounters with empire. 'The captains and the kings depart': imperial departure and arrival in early cinema / Ian Christie; title: Sons of our empire: shifting ideas of 'race' and the cinematic representation of imperial troops in World War I / Toby Haggith and Richard Smith; title: American philanthropy and colonial film-making: the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the birth of colonial cinema / James Burns; title: The state and the origins of documentary. The cinema and the (common) wealth of nations / Lee Grieveson; title: Exhibiting Africa: British instructional films and the Empire Series (1925-8) / Tom Rice; title: Imperialism and internationalism: the British documentary movement and the legacy of the Empire Marketing Board / Scott Anthony; title: Colonialism and the representation of space. Representing connection: a multimedia approach to colonial film, 1918-39 / David Trotter; title: An 'accurate imagination': place, map and archive as spatial objects of film history / Priya Jaikumar; title: Domesticating empire in the 1930s: metropole, colony, family / Julie Codell; title: African experiments. The Banto Educational Kinema Experiment and the political economy of community development / Aaron Windel; title: Colonialism, visuality and the cinema: revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment / Aboubakar Sanogo; title: 'Of great use at meetings': the film-making principles of the London Missionary Society / Francis Gooding; title: Paul Robeson and the cinema of empire / Charles Musser; title: Index.