Asia
Cinemas of Empire
By , University of Leicester (July 2006)
Sections: Asia
Subjects: Imperial, Colonial, and Postcolonial History, History, Postcolonial History.
Places: South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Asia.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, 2000 - present.
Key Topics: imperialism, arts and architecture.
Abstract
This article surveys the subject of ‘Cinemas of Empire’ from the 1930s to the present. It discusses the role of the American and British cinemas in promoting an ideology of popular imperialism during the 1930s and how the genre of ‘imperial film’ was modified in response to political and cultural determinants during and after the Second World War as it came to terms with the retreat from empire. It then considers the emergence of a radical anti-colonialist cinema in the Third World during the 1960s. It concludes by showing how postcolonial discourse has informed the national cinemas of Australia, Ireland and India in recent decades.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00337.x
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