In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema a

DIVHistory of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and

'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider

Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central