Special Issue: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen: Recovering The Rose of Rhodesia (1918)
Foreword by Terrance RangerIntroduction by Stephen Donovan and Vreni HockenjosAcknowledgements by EditorFilm Information by EditorInvestigating the Origins of The Rose of Rhodesia, Part I: African Film Productions by Neil ParsonsInvestigating the Origins of The Rose of Rhodesia, Part II: Harold Shaw Film Productions Ltd. by Neil ParsonsCape Town Bioscope Culture and The Rose of Rhodesia by James BurnsFeatured Attractions: The Rose of Rhodesia and Silent Cinema by Vreni HockenjosHollywood Histrionics: Performing “Africa” in The Rose of Rhodesia by Ylva HabelThe Rose of Rhodesia: Colonial Cinema as Narrative Fiction and Ethnographic Spectacle by Jacqueline MaingardRace, Empire, and The Rose of Rhodesia by Bernard PorterBlood Diamonds and State Repression: From The Rose of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa Diamond Fields by Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri“Until time make him white”: Race, Land, and Insurrection in The Rose of Rhodesia by Ashleigh HarrisThe Rose of Rhodesia as Colonial Romance by Stefan HelgessonGuns and Roses: Reading for Gender in The Rose of Rhodesia by Stephen DonovanIn Africa, Diamonds Are Forever: From The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery to Blood Diamond by Peter DavisScoring The Rose of Rhodesia: An Interview with Matti Bye by Peter DavisAppendix A. Plot Summary by EditorAppendix B. Intertitles with English translation by EditorAppendix C. Press cuttings by EditorAppendix D. Cast and crew biographies by EditorAppendix E. Harold Shaw filmography by EditorAppendix F. Maps of Rhodesia and Southern Africa by EditorAppendix G. Selection of early Rhodesian ephemera by EditorContributors by Editor
First Release
Four Essays: Painlevé; Jennings; Vigo; Ford. by Sam RohdieThe Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World by Robert Burgoyne
Reviews
Ford At Fox Part Two (b) by Bill RouttAlvin Purple by Ina BertrandTerror and Joy. The Films of Dusan Makavejev by Yvette BiroBlade Runner, Deer Hunters & Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies by Dean BrandumAndy Warhol’s Blow Job by Wheeler Winston DixonScreen Adaptations: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations: The Relationship Between Text and Film by Charles DrazinPalestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory by Seyda Aylin GursesInventing Film Studies by Jan-Christopher HorakFilm Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia by D.B. JonesStreet Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York 1880-1924 by Lorraine MortimerItalian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach by Geoffrey Nowell-SmithIngmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity by Daniel RossAlternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms by Thomas SalekGlobal Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance by Brian ShoesmithFilm: The Key Concepts by Matt Wanat