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OverviewFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tom RicePublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520300392ISBN 10: 0520300394 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 03 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Accessing Digitized Materials Timeline Introduction 1. Beginnings: The Interwar Movement of Nonfiction Film 2. Film Rules: The Governing Principles of the Colonial Film Unit 3. Mobilizing an Empire: The Colonial Film Unit in a State of War 4. Moving Overseas: Films for Africans, with Africans, by Africans 5. Handover: Local Units through the End of Empire Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviews[T]his volume provides a sophisticated perspective on the transformations of colonial cinema through the lens of the [Colonial Film Unit] as part of a shifting context for representation and sovereignty. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History * . . . offers an astute political analysis of colonial film's development in Britain and makes an outstanding contribution to film history. . . . a wonderfully rich resource for anyone interested in the field, an education for those who are unfamiliar with the subject and a must for historians' shelves. * Journal of British Cinema and Television * Like other works on British colonial filmmaking, the narrative of the CFU [Colonial Film Unit] in Films for the Colonies explains how the simultaneous construction of the metropole and the colony through moving images was an essential process of British colonialism. What is unique about Rice's approach is his effort to centralise colonialism within broader histories of British cinema, particularly by emphasizing the CFU's work in relation to that of the canonical filmmaking of the British documentary movement. As such, Films for the Colonies is essential reading for scholars interested in the visual history of colonialism and the global history of documentary and other 'useful' genres. * Reviews in History * [T]his volume provides a sophisticated perspective on the transformations of colonial cinema through the lens of the [Colonial Film Unit] as part of a shifting context for representation and sovereignty. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History * Offers an astute political analysis of colonial film's development in Britain and makes an outstanding contribution to film history. . . . a wonderfully rich resource for anyone interested in the field, an education for those who are unfamiliar with the subject and a must for historians' shelves. * Journal of British Cinema and Television * With this book, Rice makes the case for the importance of film to the wind-down of the empire and to independence movements of the 1960s. * CHOICE * Author InformationTom Rice is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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