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

    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 when or how that happened remains unclear. This book explores changing Western attitudes toward colonialism and decolonization by analyzing American, British, and French popular cinema and its reception from 1960 to 1973.

    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.