Imperial projections : screening the German colonies /

The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill. Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film...

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Autor principal: Fuhrmann, Wolfgang, 1965- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books [2015]
Col·lecció:Film Europa.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qcxcz
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction
  • The beginning of colonial film culture in Imperial Germany. From the variety theatre to the German colonial society
  • Carl Muller: a colonial film maker
  • The DKG's film shows: the colonies in motion
  • Addressing the masses. The 'Hottentot election' of 1907
  • The DKG's Kinematographenkampagne
  • Rise and fall of the Kinemtographenkampagne
  • Ethnographic filmmaking in the colonies
  • Karl Weule in German East Africa
  • The expedition in context: modern German ethnography
  • Filming in the Colonies: Training and Improvisation
  • Tourism, Entertainment, and Colonial Ideology. Colonial Films in Public Cinema
  • The colonial travelogue
  • Colonial films in transition: Robert Schumann's comeback
  • Colonial film propaganda during the First World War. Setting up colonial war propaganda
  • The Deutsche Kolonial-filmgesellschaft (DEUKO)
  • Conclusion. Beyond the colonial era.