Film and the End of Empire

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

Lee Grieveson is Director of Film Studies at University College London. Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of the London Consortium.

Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe eds., Film and the End of Empire
PART I: Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe, Introduction: Film at the end of Empire
Paul Gilroy, After Empire on Film
War and empire
Martin Stollery, The Crown Film Unit and the challenge of representing the Empire war effort
PART II: The colonial cinema of developmentalism
Zoe Druik, Cinema and empire: from the British documentary to UNESCO
Peter Bloom, The colonial cinema of developmentalism
Rosaleen Smyth, The role of Development Film in Britain's Administration of its African Colonies
Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Legacies of the War: the 'Approved' Film, the Masterpiece, and State Policy on Indian Cinema After Independence
PART II: The contexts of exhibition and reception
Philip Zachernuk, Who needs a witch doctor? African activists and the re-imagining of Africa in the 1940s
Charles Ambler, Film and Decolonization in Kenya
PART III: Colonial film units
Hassan Abd. Muthalib, Winning hearts and Minds: the films of the Malayan Film Unit in 1950s British Malaya
Richard Lowell MacDonald, Teaching and Learning Film in the Malayan Emergency: The Legacies of the Malayan Film Unit
Tom Rice, Africans in England: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End
PART IV: Fictions of empire
Wendy Webster, 'Hurry Up with Your Mumbo-Jumbo': Language, speech and sound in empire films, 1936-1965
Jacqueline Maingard, Colonial film production in Africa: British colonialism's civilising mission in Chisoko the African (1949) and Mau Mau (1954)
Dylan Cave, British popular cinema and the 'End of Empire' cycle
PART V: Reflections on the Colonial Archive
Terri Francis, Lost: Primer on Histories of Film and Consciousness in Jamaica
Laura Mulvey, The compilation and the Archive