Empire and film
In: Cultural histories of cinema
In: A BFI book
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. 'To take ship to India and see a naked man spearing fish in blue water': Watching Films to Mourn the End of Empire -- Early Cinematic Encounters with Empire -- 2. 'The captains and the kings depart': Imperial Departure and Arrival in Early Cinema -- 3. Sons of Our Empire: Shifting Ideas of 'Race' and the Cinematic Representation of Imperial Troops in World War I -- 4. American Philanthropy and Colonial Film-making: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the Birth of Colonial Cinema -- The State and the Origins of Documentary -- 5. The Cinema and the (Common) Wealth of Nations -- 6. Exhibiting Africa: British Instructional Films and the Empire Series (1925-8) -- 7. Imperialism and Internationalism: The British Documentary Movement and the Legacy of the Empire Marketing Board -- Colonialism and the Representation of Space -- 8. Representing Connection: A Multimedia Approach to Colonial Film, 1918-39 -- 9. An 'accurate imagination': Place, Map and Archive as Spatial Objects of Film History -- 10. Domesticating Empire in the 1930s: Metropole, Colony, Family -- African Experiments -- 11. The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment and the Political Economy of Community Development -- 12. Colonialism, Visuality and the Cinema: Revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment -- 13. 'Of great use at meetings': The Film-making Principles of the London Missionary Society -- 14. Paul Robeson and the Cinema of Empire -- Index -- eCopyright.