Film and the End of Empire

CHARLES AMBER Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA, where he was formerly Dean of the Graduate School GARETH AUSTIN Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland ANTHONY BOGUES Harmon Family Professor at Brown University, USA, where he is Professor of Africana Studies, Political Science, and an affiliated professor in the department of Modern Culture and Media FILIPA CESAR Artist and filmmaker PAUL GILROY Teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, before that he worked at Yale, USA, and Goldsmiths, UK FRANCIS GOODING Teaches at Birkbeck College and the London Consortium, UK ISAAC JULIEN Founded Sankofa Film and Video Collective (1983--1992), and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1991 LAURA MULVEY Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HASSAN ABDUL MUTHALIB Senior Artist-in-Residence at the Faculty of Artistic and Creative Technology, Malaysia, researching early Malaysian cinema RICHARD OSBORNE Programme leader for the Popular Music undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Middlesex University, UK ARJUNA PARAKRAMA Professor in the Department of English at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka TOM RICE Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland ROSALEEN SMYTH Professor of Language and Linguistics at Ruaha University College, Tanzania FRANKLYN ST. JUSTE Has been engaged in the production of motion pictures for nearly 40 years in all areas of production activity, which includes scripting, directing, photography, editing and sound MARTIN STOLLERY Lectures part-time for the Open University VRON WARE Research Fellow based at the Centre for Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), and the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) at the Open University RAVI VASUDEVAN Works at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, and co-initiated Sarai, the Centre's research programme on media experience and urban history WENDY WEBSTER Professor Emeritus of Contemporary British History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK PHILIP S. ZACHERNUK Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Canada

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.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.