Imperial Projections

Imperial ProjectionsThe beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill. Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film industry, films of the colonies were welcomed by organizations such as the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Society). The films triggered

this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context

how the wife not only fears her husband

and return home

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Rosel experienced Kristallnacht in Frankfurt

as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support and appreciation from Ethiopian laborers and state entities

" This volume offers the first analysis of the Winter Olympic Games

and aesthetic contexts across East Asia

The contributors pursue lines of argument that complement

this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize

Documented here is the emergence of poetry as the dominant literary form and quickest reaction to the atrocities

This book situates itself in a new genre of writing on borderland zones between nations