Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand [Hardcover]

Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and filmic discourse.Introduction PART I: Making a Settler Cinema in the United States Playing Empire: Settler Masculinities, Adventure, and The Four Feathers (1929) Imperial Production, Settler Colonialism, and the Argosy Westerns PART II: Empire and Settler Cinema in Australia Ealing's Australian Westerns PART III: Film History and Settler Cinema in Aotearoa/New Zealand Hei Tiki (1935): Film Histories Past and Present Unsettled Histories: The Seekers (1954)

Making Settler Cinemas is refreshing and lively, providing a substantial model for cross-cultural flm studies. - Screening the Past

'Focusing on the relationships or 'encounters' among British and U.S. imperial designs, postcolonial settler societies, indigenous cultures, and film production and reception in the titular areas from 1929 to 1954, Limbrick examines how ostensibly localized cultural practices exist within eminently geopolitical, networked spaces of exchange and friction. Beautifully researched and lucidly written, this book has the benefit of being both timely and also enduring as an historical analysis of a nexus of crucial, formative encounters, whose influence on politics and culture continue to be felt today.' Janet Walker, Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara

'This far-reaching and breathtakingly layered analysis reconstructs complex circuits of film production enabled by settler colonialism, connecting the societies of Australia and New Zealand to the empires of Britain and the United States. After reading Limbrick on the production and screening of The Seekers among the Maori in New Zealand, it will be impossible to look at American Westerns in the same way. This book uncovers for the first time routes taken by film directors, crews and telƒq