1st Edition
Film and Colonialism in the Sixties The Anti-Colonialist Turn in the US, Britain, and France
By Jon Cowans
Copyright 2019
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. As nearly all of the West’s colonies gained their independence by 1975, attitudes toward colonialism in the West also changed, and terms such as empire and colonialism, once used with pride, became strongly negative. While colonialism has become discredited, precisely... Read more
Introduction
Part One Introduction
Chapter One: Colonial Adventure Films of the Early 1960s
Chapter Two: Westerns of the Early 1960s
Chapter Three: Spotlighting Decolonization: The United States and Britain
Chapter Four: Spotlighting Decolonization: France
Part Two Introduction
Chapter Five: The Anti-Colonialist Turn in Europe
Chapter Six: The Anti-Colonialist Turn in Hollywood
Chapter Seven: Revisionist Westerns, 1967-1973
Chapter Eight: France and the Second Algeria Cycle, 1970-1973
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Jon Cowans is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University of New Jersey, Newark, USA.
