Overview

Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres - art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera - represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945, as well as the reworkings of imperial and 'racial' ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance.

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Author:   Simon Faulkner ,  Anandi Ramamurthy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9780754640028

ISBN 10:   0754640027
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 November 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction, Simon Faulkner and Anandi Ramamurthy; 'Festering Britain': the 1951 Festival of Britain, decolonisation and the representation of the Commonwealth, Jo Littler; Images of industrialisation in Empire and Commonwealth during the shift to neo-colonialism; Anandi Ramamurthy; Late colonial exoticism: John Minton's pictures of Jamaica, 1950 - 52, Simon Faulkner; Frances Newton Souza and Aubrey Williams: entwined art histories at the end of Empire, Leon Wainwright; A journey through the imperial gaze: Birmingham's photographic collections and its Caribbean nexus, Sandra Courtman; Can Whisky come too?, Patricia Holland and Emma Sandon; There'll always be an England: representations of colonial wars and immigration, 1948 - 68, Wendy Webster; Casting a giant shadow: the appropriation of colonial imagery in three pro-Zionist films, Richard Farrow; Fragments in the history of the visual culture of anti-colonial struggle, Hakim Adi and Anandi Ramamurthy; Afterword: 'Ways of seeing', Bill Schwarz; Index.

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Simon Faulkner is Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Anandi Ramamurthy is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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