Films for the colonies : cinema and the preservation of the British Empire /

"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 instruc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rice, Tom, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Colonial Film Unit > History.
Great Britain. > Colonial Film Unit
1900-1999
Motion pictures > Great Britain > 20th century > History.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > 20th century.
Cinéma > Grande-Bretagne > 20e siècle > Histoire.
Cinéma > Aspect social > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film > Genres > Historical.
British colonies
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Great Britain > Colonies > In motion pictures.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Au cinéma.
Great Britain
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.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings: the interwar movement of nonfiction film
  • Film rules: the governing principles of the colonial film unit
  • Mobilizing an empire: the colonial film unit in a state of war
  • Moving overseas: "films for Africans, with Africans, by Africans"
  • Handover: local units through the end of empire

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