Empire and Film

Introduction: 'To take ship to India to see a naked man spearing fish in blue water': Watching Films to Mourn the End of Empire; C.MacCabe PART I: EARLY CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS WITH EMPIRE 'The Captains and the Kings Depart': Imperial Departure and Arrival in Early Cinema; I.Christie'Sons of our Empire': Shifting Ideas of 'Race' and the Cinematic Representation of Imperial Troops in the First World War; T.Haggith and R.SmithAmerican Philanthropy and Colonial Filmmaking - the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Birth of Colonial Cinema; J.Burns PART II: THE STATE AND THE ORIGINS OF DOCUMENTARY The Cinema and the (Common)Wealth of Nations; L.Grieveson Exhibiting Africa: British Instructional Films and The Empire Series (1925-1928); T.RiceImperialism and Internationalism: The British Documentary Movement and the Legacy of the Empire Marketing Board; S.AnthonyPART III: COLONIALISM AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SPACE Representing Connection: A Multimedia Approach to Colonial Film, 1918-1939; D.TrotterAn 'Accurate Imagination': Place, Map and Archive as Spatial Objects of Film History; P.JaikumarDomesticating Empire in the 1930s: Metropole, Colony, Family; J.CodellPART IV: AFRICAN EXPERIMENTS The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment and the Political Economy of Community Development; A.WindelColonialism, Visuality and the Cinema: Revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment; A.Sanago'Of Great Use at Meetings: Film-Making Principles of the London Missionary Society'; F.GoodingPaul Robeson and the Cinema of Empire; C.Musser

Edited By Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe