TY - CHAP
T1 - Working through the end of Empire
AU - Rice, Tom
PY - 2023/12/22
Y1 - 2023/12/22
N2 - This chapter examines how industrial film was representing, negotiating and managing the loss of the British Empire to colonial audiences. It highlights the centrality of industry and argues that the colonial industrial film was defined, and enacting change, by a specific set of aesthetic values. Therefore, it foregrounds the work of government officials, and subject experts, within industrial film histories. Through the example of different government film units, the chapter foregrounds the performance of work and industry, both on, and off, screen, in the nation-building process. In the immediate aftermath of war film both represents and embodies a new model of industry and economic partnership for colonial audiences, revealing the informal economies of cinema that would often operate beyond independence.
AB - This chapter examines how industrial film was representing, negotiating and managing the loss of the British Empire to colonial audiences. It highlights the centrality of industry and argues that the colonial industrial film was defined, and enacting change, by a specific set of aesthetic values. Therefore, it foregrounds the work of government officials, and subject experts, within industrial film histories. Through the example of different government film units, the chapter foregrounds the performance of work and industry, both on, and off, screen, in the nation-building process. In the immediate aftermath of war film both represents and embodies a new model of industry and economic partnership for colonial audiences, revealing the informal economies of cinema that would often operate beyond independence.
KW - Colonial Film Unit (CFU)
KW - Industrial film
KW - Government film-making
KW - Training schools
KW - Africa
KW - Jamaica
UR - https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048537815/films-that-work-harder
UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86229
UR - https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9789462986534&rn=1
U2 - 10.5117/9789462986534
DO - 10.5117/9789462986534
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789462986534
T3 - Film culture in transition
SP - 493
EP - 511
BT - Films that work harder
A2 - Hediger, Vinzenz
A2 - Hoof, Florian
A2 - Zimmerman, Yvonne
PB - Amsterdam University Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -