Making Revolutionary Film in Idi Amin’s Uganda: Propaganda and Peril
Since 2018 we have been working with colleagues in Uganda to rehabilitate and digitise the film, photographic and radio assets of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. In this article we focus on two movies that have been recently brought to light. In the first, the 1972 film Uganda’s Economic War, p...
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Since 2018 we have been working with colleagues in Uganda to rehabilitate and digitise the film, photographic and radio assets of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. In this article we focus on two movies that have been recently brought to light. In the first, the 1972 film Uganda’s Economic War, producers of the Uganda Film Unit made Idi Amin’s inhumane campaign against Uganda’s Asian community appear revolutionary. The second film, made in 1975 but never finished, depicted the humiliation of Lord Chandos Blair, a British military officer who had been sent to Uganda to plead for the life of a condemned British author. In film, Amin’s regime sought to place Uganda—a landlocked place, far from the theatre of struggle—on the front lines in the global war against racism and imperialism. But the making of revolutionary film was always fraught, for revolutionary cinema could also look ridiculous. This essay brings the power and the perils of anticolonial cinema to light. |
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