... ;s prominent position within a redefined post-War Empire and of the Labour Government& ... greatly changed needs of the post-war world… a glance at Asia is enough ... complete absence of Africa within inter-war pictures of colonials within London. In films ...
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... small beer, either to a financially straitened post-war Britain, or to the ambitiously nationalist settler ... for copper had increased after the war, and production in the Copperbelt rose ... after 1953. The end of the war had seen the implementation of the ...
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A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. ... the representational structure of earlier Boer War fiction films. For example, the ... LatestThing”: The Boer War Cinema and Visual Culture in Britain ...
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... movement, and the growing seriousness of the war in South-East Asia (Garga, 2007, ... complicated propaganda aims, addressing both the War and (less overtly) India’s ... and IFI films that address the War or contemporary political events, is that they are ...
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... the LMS maintained influence before World War One through judicious co-option of the ... powers. Samoan society itself was convulsed by wars during the mid-nineteenth century, ... didactic aspect which is common in post-war LMS productions, and is devoted instead ...
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... destroy Egyptian morale, "...but the two war criminals soon realised that their ... ;treacherous’; they are ‘war criminals’, men who destroy ... ).
Barnett, Michael N., Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society ...
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the LAND OF CYPRUS 1950
...Despite these growing problems, the post-war period was one of growth and relative ... . This film was made in the post-war period when there were labour shortages in ... world that was still recovering from the War. And yet these remain surprising images ...
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... (‘Historical Importance’).
In a letter held at the Imperial War Museum, Captain Reed recalls his experiences at Sholapur ( ... is no documentation explaining this sequence. The Imperial War Museum have noted that ‘It is unclear ...
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BAGHDAD 1928
... and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators’. In a post-war international climate resistant to the outright annexation of territories, ... work in driving the Turks from Iraq in the Great War’) and through other titles which again relate ... -
DRUM 1938
... the British to control and had a volatile history of Afghan wars. A policy of divide and rule pertained whereby British control ... the 1930s. The British are established as protectors against warring native factions, with Carruthers as the benign English ... -
GUNS AT BATASI 1964
... Officers of the British army.In the 1950s, films about colonial wars in Malaya and Kenya had portrayed an empire that was ... ’, recalling ‘church parade in Singapore before the war’, and India — ‘Jewel of the East ...
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MAN OF AFRICA 1953
... bolster an ‘ailing and internationally uncompetitive post-war film industry’, Group 3 struggled for effective distribution ... film indicates both the commercial expectations for post-war documentary films and the dominant cinematic representations ...
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