Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
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Grant Holder:
Professor Colin MacCabe
The Colonial film project catalogues all films documenting and representing aspects of the British empire held by the British Film Institute, The Imperial War Museum, and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. The final catalogue will identify over 6000 films and some 10% of the collection will have enhanced entries bringing a wealth of detailed knowledge to illuminate particular films. A number of these films are analysed in detail, and around 30 hours are digitized and made freely available. The project mainly spans the years 1896-1965. It is principally a Film Studies project, but is connected also to the disciplines of History, Colonial and Post-colonial Studies, and Anthropology.
| Project start date: 2007-04 | Project end date: 2010-30 |
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Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Moving Image, Sound
Digital resource created:
A website housing a catalogue of some 7000 films from three archives: the British Film Institute, The Imperial War Museum, and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Around 360 in depth accounts of significant films, written by post-doctoral researchers. And about 30 hours of digitized films. The resource is not live until September 2010 and its url is not yet established.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Colin MacCabe; Dr Lee Grieveson |
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| Author(s) of record | Anna Winterbottom |
| Title | Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire |
| Record created | 2010-07-13 |
| Record updated | 2011-05-11 17:00 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4061 |
| Citation of record | Anna Winterbottom: Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4061> created: 2010-07-13, last updated 2011-05-11 17:00 |