Films for the Colonies : Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire /

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Films for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructiona...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rice, Tom (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]
Temas:
Motion pictures > Social aspects > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Great Britain > 20th century > History.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical.
1920s.
british colonies.
british empire.
british government.
colonial film unit.
empire.
film.
ghana.
global cinema.
independence.
instructional and educational films.
jamaica.
legacies of colonialism.
malaysia.
malta.
media.
mobile cinemas.
movies.
new forms of cinema culture.
new historical perspective.
producing movies.
propaganda.
rapidly changing empire.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Accessing Digitized Materials
  • Timeline
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beginnings: The Interwar Movement of Nonfiction Film
  • 2. Film Rules: The Governing Principles of the Colonial Film Unit
  • 3. Mobilizing an Empire: The Colonial Film Unit in a State of War
  • 4. Moving Overseas: "Films for Africans, with Africans, by Africans"
  • 5. Handover: Local Units through the End of Empire
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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