Bernard Porter – Screening the Past

Race, Empire, and The Rose of Rhodesia

Post author:Bernard Porter
Post published:January 4, 2015
Post category:Issue 25 - Special Issue: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen: Recovering The Rose of Rhodesia (1918)

Abstract The Rose of Rhodesia is difficult to place in relation to British imperialism and race relations, because its situation with regard to both is ambivalent. Though clearly an “imperial” film,…