Discuss the roles that film played in furthering the goals and objectives of colonialism in Africa.
Instructions
1). Answer the question in detail .
2). Your essay must be detailed and should show that you have gone through the reading and the films and understood them.
3). Do not attach any documents, PDFs or Microsoft Word documents.
4). All essays must be turned in before the due date.
Question
Using Kevin Dunn’s “Lights…Camera…Africa: Images of Africa and Africans in Western Popular Films of the 1930s” (posted under Week 7&8 under Modules) and the films “King Solomon’s Mines” (link posted under Week 5&6 in the course syllabus) and “Mr. Bones” (link posted under Week 7&8 in the course syllabus), discuss the roles that film played in furthering the goals and objectives of colonialism in Africa. In your analysis, focus on how Africans (as subjects/victims of colonialism) and Europeans (as perpetrators/beneficiaries of colonialism) are portrayed in the 2 films, and frame your paper on the basis of the arguments advanced by Kevin Dunn in the reading cited above. You can also make use of the slides posted as Week 7&8 Slides under the Modules tab.
Word count for this essay is as follows: 600 words
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