Film and the End of Empire

Film and the End of Empire
Title Film and the End of Empire PDF eBook
Author Lee Grieveson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 557
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1838715703

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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 imperialism, to moments of decolonization andthe ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War.

Cinema at the End of Empire

Cinema at the End of Empire
Title Cinema at the End of Empire PDF eBook
Author Priya Jaikumar
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 338
Release 2006-05-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780822337935

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DIVHistory of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and 1940s./div

End of Empire

End of Empire
Title End of Empire PDF eBook
Author Brian Lapping
Publisher
Pages 560
Release 1985
Genre Commonwealth countries
ISBN 9780246119698

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Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun
Title Empire of the Sun PDF eBook
Author J. G. Ballard
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 288
Release 2013-03-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1476737533

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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

Films for the Colonies

Films for the Colonies
Title Films for the Colonies PDF eBook
Author Tom Rice
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 360
Release 2019-10-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0520300394

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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 instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism.

Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema

Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema
Title Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema PDF eBook
Author Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 421
Release 2015-02-11
Genre History
ISBN 0253015669

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.

British culture and the end of empire

British culture and the end of empire
Title British culture and the end of empire PDF eBook
Author Stuart Ward
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 254
Release 2017-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 1526119625

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This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.