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Films for the colonies[electronic resource] :cinema and the preservation of the British Empire /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	791.430942
書名/作者:	Films for the colonies : cinema and the preservation of the British Empire // Tom Rice.
作者:	Rice, Tom.
出版者:	Oakland, CA : : University of California Press,, c2019.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (360 p.) : : ill.
標題:	Motion pictures - History - 20th century. - Great Britain
標題:	Motion pictures - Social aspects - 20th century.
標題:	Great Britain - Fiction.
ISBN:	9780520971813
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
摘要、提要註:	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.
電子資源:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520971813

Films for the colonies[electronic resource] :cinema and the preservation of the British Empire /
Rice, Tom.

Films for the coloniescinema and the preservation of the British Empire /[electronic resource] :Tom Rice. - 1st ed. - Oakland, CA :University of California Press,c2019. - 1 online resource (360 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter --

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.

ISBN: 9780520971813

Standard No.: 10.1525/9780520971813doi

LCCN: 2019004370Subjects--Corporate Names:

751987
Great Britain.
Colonial Film Unit--History.Subjects--Topical Terms:

473201
Motion pictures
--History--Great Britain--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

337657
Great Britain
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PN1993.5.G7 / R45 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 791.430942

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