Film and the End of Empire (Cultural Histories of Cinema)

"In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperialism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War"-- Provided by publisher In These Two Volumes Of Original Essays, Scholars From Around The World Address The History Of British Colonial Cinema Stretching From The Emergence Of Cinema At The Height Of Imperalism, To Moments Of Decolonization And The Ending Of Formal Imperialism In The Post-second World War-- Introduction / Lee Grieveson -- Great Games: Film, History And Working-through Britain's Colonial Legacy / Paul Gilroy -- Empire At War. The Last Roll Of The Dice: Morning, Noon And Night, Empire And The Historiography Of The Crown Film Unit / Martin Stollery -- India On Film, 1939-47 / Richard Osborne -- Official And Amateur: Exploring Information Film In India, 1920s-40s / Ravi Vasudevan -- Who Needs A Witch Doctor? African Activists And The Re-imagining Of Africa In The 1940s / Philip Zachernuk -- Johnny Gurkha Loves A Party: The Colonial Film Archive And The Racial Imaginary Of The Worker-warrior / Vron Ware -- Film/government/development. From The Inside: The Colonial Film Unit And The Beginning Of The End / Tom Rice -- Images Of Empire On Shifting Sands: The Colonial Film Unit In West Africa In The Post-war Period / Rosaleen Smyth -- The End Of Empire: The Films Of The Malayan Film Unit In 1950s British Malaya / Hassan Muthalib -- Projecting Africa. Projecting The Modern Colonial State: Mobile Cinema In Kenya / Charles Ambler -- Poverty And Development As Themes In British Films On The Gold Coast, 1927-57 / Gareth Austin -- Mumbo-jumbo, Magic And Modernity: Africa In British Cinema, 1946-65 / Wendy Webster -- Dislocations: Some Reflections On The Colonial Compilation Film / Laura Mulvey -- Afterthoughts On Colonial Film. Notes On The Making Of Black Balance: An Ongoing Film Essay On The Colonial Archive / Filipa César -- The Repatriation Of Jamaican Film Images / Franklyn St. Juste -- Undoing The Colonial Archive / Isaac Julien -- The Colonial Regime Of Knowledge: Film, Archives And Re-imaging Colonial Power / Anthony Bogues -- Perennial Empire: Its Ends Provide The Means For National Despotism In Lanka Even Today / Arjuna Parakrama -- Missing The End: Falsehood And Fantasy In Late Colonial Cinema / Francis Gooding. Edited By Lee Grieveson And Colin Maccabe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 11 Acknowledgments 17 1. Introduction: Film and the End of Empire 19 2. Great Games: Film, History and Working-through Britain’s Colonial Legacy 31 Empire at War 51 3. The Last Roll of the Dice: Morning, Noon and Night, Empire and the Historiography of the Crown Film Unit 53 4. India on Film, 1939–47 73 5. Official and Amateur: Exploring Information Film in India, 1920s–40s 91 6. Who Needs a Witch Doctor? Refiguring British Colonial Cinema in the 1940s 113 7. ‘Johnny Gurkha loves a party’: The Colonial Film Archive and the Racial Imaginary of the Worker-Warrior 137 Film/Government/Development 151 8. From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End 153 9. Images of Empires on Shifting Sands: The Colonial Film Unit in West Africa in the Post-war Period 173 10. The End of Empire: The Films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya 195 Projecting Africa 215 11. Projecting the Modern Colonial State: The Mobile Cinema in Kenya 217 12. Poverty and Development as Themes in British Films on the Gold Coast, 1927–57 243 13. Mumbo-jumbo, Magic and Modernity: Africa in British Cinema, 1946–65 255 14. Dislocations: Some Reflections on the Colonial Compilation Film 269 Afterthoughts on Colonial Film 281 15. Notes on the Making of Black Balance: An Ongoing Film Essay on the Colonial Archive 283 16. The Repatriation of Jamaican Film Images 285 17. Undoing the Colonial Archive 291 18. The Colonial Regime of Knowledge: Film, Archives and Re-Imaging Colonial Power 295 19. Perennial Empire: Its Ends Provide the Means for National Despotism in Lanka Even Today 299 20. Missing the End: Falsehood and Fantasy in Late Colonial Cinema 305 Index 311