Film and the End of Empire

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Film and the End of Empire
2. Great Games: Film, History and Working-through Britain’s Colonial Legacy
Empire at War
3. The Last Roll of the Dice: Morning, Noon and Night, Empire and the Historiography of the Crown Film Unit
4. India on Film, 1939–47
5. Official and Amateur: Exploring Information Film in India, 1920s–40s
6. Who Needs a Witch Doctor? Refiguring British Colonial Cinema in the 1940s
7. ‘Johnny Gurkha loves a party’: The Colonial Film Archive and the Racial Imaginary of the Worker-Warrior
Film/Government/Development
8. From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End
9. Images of Empires on Shifting Sands: The Colonial Film Unit in West Africa in the Post-war Period
10. The End of Empire: The Films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya
Projecting Africa
11. Projecting the Modern Colonial State: The Mobile Cinema in Kenya
12. Poverty and Development as Themes in British Films on the Gold Coast, 1927–57
13. Mumbo-jumbo, Magic and Modernity: Africa in British Cinema, 1946–65
14. Dislocations: Some Reflections on the Colonial Compilation Film
Afterthoughts on Colonial Film
15. Notes on the Making of Black Balance: An Ongoing Film Essay on the Colonial Archive
16. The Repatriation of Jamaican Film Images
17. Undoing the Colonial Archive
18. The Colonial Regime of Knowledge: Film, Archives and Re-Imaging Colonial Power
19. Perennial Empire: Its Ends Provide the Means for National Despotism in Lanka Even Today
20. Missing the End: Falsehood and Fantasy in Late Colonial Cinema
Index