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Issue 25: Special Issue:
Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen:
Recovering The Rose of Rhodesia (1918)
Uploaded Thursday, 3 September 2009
Guest Editors: Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos
Table of Contents
Introduction: Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos
The Rose of Rhodesia—click here to view the film
Part I: Production and Reception
Neil Parsons: Investigating the Origins of The Rose of Rhodesia, Part I: African Film Productions
Neil Parsons: Investigating the Origins of The Rose of Rhodesia, Part II: Harold Shaw Film Productions Ltd.
James Burns: Cape Town Bioscope Culture and The Rose of Rhodesia
Part II: Cinematic Perspectives
Vreni Hockenjos: Featured Attractions: The Rose of Rhodesia and Silent Cinema
Ylva Habel: Hollywood Histrionics: Performing “Africa” in The Rose of Rhodesia
Jacqueline Maingard: The Rose of Rhodesia: Colonial Cinema as Narrative Fiction and Ethnographic Spectacle
Part III: Political Perspectives
Bernard Porter: Race, Empire, and The Rose of Rhodesia
Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri: Blood Diamonds and State Repression: From The Rose of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa Diamond Fields
Ashleigh Harris: “Until time make him white”: Race, Land, and Insurrection in The Rose of Rhodesia
Part IV: Literary Perspectives
Stefan Helgesson: The Rose of Rhodesia as Colonial Romance
Stephen Donovan: Guns and Roses: Reading for Gender in The Rose of Rhodesia
Commentary
Peter Davis: In Africa, Diamonds Are Forever: From The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery to Blood Diamond
Scoring The Rose of Rhodesia: An Interview with Matti Bye
Appendices
A. Plot summary
B. Intertitles with English translation
C. Press cuttings
D. Cast and crew biographies
E. Harold Shaw filmography
F. Maps of Rhodesia and Southern Africa
G. Early Rhodesian ephemera
First release
Sam Rohdie, Four Essays: Painlevé; Jennings; Vigo; Ford.
Robert Burgoyne, The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World.
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