FM5104 Colonial Cinema

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Module description

Colonial Cinema will examine the integral role that cinema played in the control, organisation and governance of the British Empire. Exploring transnational developments in cinema, it assesses early filmmaking, distribution and exhibition practices in, for example, Africa, India, and Malaya. The module offers students a new way of examining film history, from the emergence of film in the late 19th century to the establishment of local film cultures in colonial and post-colonial territories. Colonial Cinema addresses pedagogical uses of cinema and non-theatrical forms of exhibition (for example, mobile cinema circuits), encouraging students to engage critically with primary archival material, government reports and, in particular, a new online resource for colonial film, Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire.