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List of films featuring colonialism

Colonialism in the cinema has been the subject of many books and essays. Stereotyping, distortion, imagistic mistreatment, assimilationism and caricatural visions of colonies have been practiced in this type of cinema. Before 1960 most colonialism films were made with narratives constructed from the point of view of the colonizing nationals. During the era of colonialism, many European governments funded film projects which involved their overseas colonies; either for instructional purposes for individuals living in colonies or to support colonialism in general. The United States' settler colonialism resulted in the American westward expansion which led to the establishment of the so-called Western genre, which dealt with many colonialist topics; these have been subverted in Revisionist Westerns, which came about during a re-evaluation of the genre in the 1960s.

In June 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued a formal written apology to actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather in relation to the management of her appearance on behalf of Marlon Brando to decline an Academy Award. In 1973, Sacheen declined the best actor award on Brando's behalf "...in recognition of the misrepresentation and mistreatment of Native American people by the film industry..."

List of colonialism-related films

The following is an alphabetical list of films and series that feature or relate to colonialism.

See also

References

Further reading

  • Baldwin, James. 1976. The Devil finds work: an essay.
  • Cowans, Jon. (2018) Film and Colonialism in the Sixties: The Anti-Colonialist Turn in the US, Britain, and France Publisher: Routledge. 292 pp. , 9780429665028.
  • Cowans, Jon. (2015) Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946—1959 Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE,
  • Friedman, Jonathan C. and Hewitt, William L. (eds.) (2017). The history of genocide in cinema : atrocities on screen. London :I.B. Tauris,
  • Lahti, J., & Weaver-Hightower, R. (2020). Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film (1st ed.). Routledge. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003057277</nowiki>
  • Limbrick, P. (2010) Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand Author P. Publisher: Springer. 272 pp. , 9780230107915
  • Mayer, Hervé, & Roche, David (Eds.). (2022). Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film. Indiana University Press. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv26qjhx8</nowiki>
  • Nunn, Nora (2020) Rose-Colored Genocide: Hollywood, Harmonizing Narratives, and the Cinematic Legacy of Anne Frank's Diary in the United States, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 14: Iss. 2: 65-89. DOI: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.14.2.1715</nowiki> Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol14/iss2/7
  • Rice, Tom. (2019) Films for the Colonies: Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire, Oakland, University of California Press. 360pp.
  • Richards, Jeffrey. (2001). 'Imperial heroes for a post-imperial age: Films and the end of empire', in Stuart Ward (ed.), British culture and the end of empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • – originally published in 2001
  • Slavin, David Henry. (2001) Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 300 pp. .
  • Stam, R. (1998). Colonialism, Racism, and Representation (with Louise Spence), in the Fifth Edition of Braudy and Cohen, eds., Film Theory and Criticism (New York: Oxford, 1998).

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Related documentaries

  • Imagining Indians (1992): a 1992 film produced and directed by Indigenous filmmaker, Victor Masayesva Jr. (Hopi). The film attempts to reveal the misrepresentation of Indigenous culture and tradition in Classical Hollywood films through interviews with different Indigenous actors from various tribes in North America.
  • Inventing the Indian (2012): a 2012 BBC film that explores the stereotypical view of Indigenous peoples in the United States in cinema and literature.
  • Reel Injun (2009): a 2009 Canadian film directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that covers the portrayal of Indigenous peoples in film.