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Empire and film
- Title
- Empire and film / edited by Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe.
- Publication
- London : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2011.
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- Description
- xii, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cultural histories of cinema
- Uniform Title
- Cultural histories of cinema.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- '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 -- Early cinematic encounters with empire. 'The captains and the kings depart' : imperial departure and arrival in early cinema / Ian Christie ; Sons of our empire : shifting ideas of 'race' and the cinematic representation of imperial troops in World War I / Toby Haggith and Richard Smith ; American philanthropy and colonial film-making : the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the birth of colonial cinema / James Burns -- The state and the origins of documentary. The cinema and the (common) wealth of nations / Lee Grieveson ; Exhibiting Africa : British instructional films and the Empire Series (1925-8) / Tom Rice ; Imperialism and internationalism : the British documentary movement and the legacy of the Empire Marketing Board / Scott Anthony -- Colonialism and the representation of space. Representing connection : a multimedia approach to colonial film, 1918-39 / David Trotter ; An 'accurate imagination' : place, map and archive as spatial objects of film history / Priya Jaikumar ; Domesticating empire in the 1930s : metropole, colony, family / Julie Codell -- African experiments. The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment and the political economy of community development / Aaron Windel ; Colonialism, visuality and the cinema : revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment / Aboubakar Sanogo ; 'Of great use at meetings' : the film-making principles of the London Missionary Society / Francis Gooding ; Paul Robeson and the cinema of empire / Charles Musser.
- Call Number
- MFL 13-1024
- ISBN
- 9781844574223 (hbk.)
- 1844574229 (hbk.)
- 9781844574216 (pbk.)
- 1844574210 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011456819
- OCLC
- 751754525
- Title
- Empire and film / edited by Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe.
- Imprint
- London : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2011.
- Series
- Cultural histories of cinemaCultural histories of cinema.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Grieveson, Lee, 1969-MacCabe, Colin.British Film Institute.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 13-1024