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- Title
- Projecting empire : imperialism and popular cinema / James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull.
- Author
- Chapman, James, 1968-
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Cull, Nicholas John
- Description
- xii, 244 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. This study of imperialism and cinema maps the history of empire cinema in both Hollywood and Britain through a series of case studies of popular films including biopics, adventures, literary adaptations, melodramas, comedies and documentaries.
- Series Statement
- Cinema and society series
- Uniform Title
- Cinema and society
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Imperialism and popular cinema: a survey -- Technicolor empire: The four feathers (1939) -- America's Kipling: Gunga Din (1939) -- The British Empire at war: Burma victory (1945) -- Facing the stampede of decolonization: Elephant walk (1954) -- The watershed: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -- Pursuing respect: The naked prey (1965) -- Camping up the Empire: Follow that camel (1967), Carry on up the Khyber (1968) and Carry on up the jungle (1970) -- The imperial trap: the man who would be king (1975) -- Calling Dr Jones: Raiders of the lost ark (1981) -- The Raj revival: Gandhi (1982) -- Imperial adventure redux: Three kings (1999).
- ISBN
- 9781845119409
- 1845119401
- OCLC
- 311761273
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library