Alternative Empires

Martin Stollery is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Faculty of Media, Arts and Society at Southampton Institute. His other books include York Film Notes: Lawrence of Arabia (York Press, 2000) and Youssef Chahine's L'Émigré (Flicks Books, 2000)Roy Perkins (co-author) of The British Film Editor (BFI).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. New Directions in European Cinema Studies2. European modernist cinemas and Eurocentric modernity3. The European Cinematic Metropolis and its Others4. Montage, Modernity and Ethnicity5. Kino-eye's Global Vision6. The British Documentary Film Movement's Enlightened Imperialism7. Receptions of Empire in 1930s British Film Culture8. Contemporary LegaciesNotesBibliographyIndex

‘the book’s inquiry into ethnic representations of imperial cinemas of modernism is a welcome and impressive contribution to the field. Its analyses are thorough and thought-provoking, and in many instances constitute a truly original way of looking at these films.’ (Alternative Empires: European Modernist Cinemas and Cultures of Imperialism, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, No. 20, 2003)“Stollery’s exciting project…is a welcome and impressive contribution to the field. Its analyses are thorough and thought-provoking, and in many instances constitute a truly original way of looking at these films.” (Quarterly Review of Film and Video, No. 20, July-September 2003)