Alternative Empires

Martin Stollery is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Faculty of Media, Arts and Society at Southampton Institute. His other books include York Film Notes: Lawrence of Arabia (York Press, 2000) and Youssef Chahine's L'Émigré (Flicks Books, 2000)Roy Perkins (co-author) of The British Film Editor (BFI).

‘the book’s inquiry into ethnic representations of imperial cinemas of modernism is a welcome and impressive contribution to the field. Its analyses are thorough and thought-provoking, and in many instances constitute a truly original way of looking at these films.’ (Alternative Empires: European Modernist Cinemas and Cultures of Imperialism, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, No. 20, 2003)“Stollery’s exciting project…is a welcome and impressive contribution to the field. Its analyses are thorough and thought-provoking, and in many instances constitute a truly original way of looking at these films.” (Quarterly Review of Film and Video, No. 20, July-September 2003)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. New Directions in European Cinema Studies2. European modernist cinemas and Eurocentric modernity3. The European Cinematic Metropolis and its Others4. Montage, Modernity and Ethnicity5. Kino-eye's Global Vision6. The British Documentary Film Movement's Enlightened Imperialism7. Receptions of Empire in 1930s British Film Culture8. Contemporary LegaciesNotesBibliographyIndex