Author Archive for: ‘Jacqueline Maingard’
The Rose of Rhodesia: Colonial Cinema as Narrative Fiction and Ethnographic Spectacle
Abstract This essay examines The Rose of Rhodesia as both romantic fiction and ethnographic spectacle. It discusses the film’s development of imperial heroes, Lord Cholmondeley and Jack Morel, and a colonial heroine, Rose Randall, and analyses the film’s ethnographic representations of the colonised Other. The paper shows how the film advances perspectives on the Christianising and civilising ethic of colonialism, within which …
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