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Of Empire and the City - Remapping Early British Cinema (Paperback, New edition)
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Of Empire and the City - Remapping Early British Cinema (Paperback, New edition)
Series: New Studies in European Cinema, 15
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This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in
British film from 1895 to 1914, featuring depictions of London,
Glasgow, Dublin, Delhi and other British colonial cities. The
author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of
the economic, social and cultural life of these cities but also
that the spatial organization of these urban areas, and the
cinematic representations of them, were shaped by the ideology and
activity of imperialism. The pioneer camera operators who made
these early films often put forward an imperialist ideology by
paying particular attention to the cinematic representation of
monumental and ceremonial spaces, modern communication and
transport within the city and between the city and the empire. Of
Empire and the City establishes connections between these cities
and their cinematic representation by means of continuous motifs
and themes, including modernity, Orientalism, spectatorship and the
imperial subject. The book makes a unique contribution to studies
of early film, British urban history and the history of the British
Empire. "This is a highly original and genuinely groundbreaking
piece of scholarship on early British cinema. Very little work on
this subject to date has sought to contextualise films of the 1890s
and 1900s within the broader field of the history of imperialism.
Cinquegrani's book systematically corrects this 'blind spot', and
in its use of a wide range of ideas and methodologies [...] it
offers a compelling new model for future scholarship on British
cinema of the silent era." (Dr Jon Burrows, Associate Professor,
Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick)
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