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Author:   Lee Grieveson ,  Lee Grieveson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.667kg
ISBN:  

9781844574230

ISBN 10:   1844574237
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of 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;

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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

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