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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v40.i11.records.utf8:8338994:3900
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LEADER: 03900cam a2200433 i 4500
001 2011047513
003 DLC
005 20120308114534.0
008 111115s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011047513
020 $a9781844574247 (cloth)
020 $a9781844574230 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPN1993.5.G7$bF485 2011
082 00 $a070.1/8$223
084 $aPER004030$aPER004000$aHIS015000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
245 00 $aFilm and the end of empire /$cedited by Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011.
300 $axvi, 302 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperalism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Film and the End of Empire / 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? Refiguring British Colonial Cinema 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: The 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.
610 20 $aGreat Britain.$bColonial Film Unit$xHistory.
650 0 $aDocumentary films$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aHistorical films$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zGreat Britain$xColonies.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMotion pictures and the war.
650 0 $aMotion pictures in propaganda$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aImperialism in motion pictures.
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aGrieveson, Lee,$d1969-
700 1 $aMacCabe, Colin.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/230/9781844574230/image/lgcover.9781844574230.jpg