Film and the End of Empire

Abstract

Introduction: 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 Cesar -- 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.