Imperial Projections

Wolfgang Fuhrmann teaches film at the University of Zurich’s Department of Film Studies. From 2005–2008 he was Director of the DFG Research Project “Film and Ethnography in Germany 1900–1930,” and has held teaching positions in Germany, Switzerland, and the Americas. He has published on German colonial cinema, early ethnographic filmmaking, historical film reception, and transnational film history.

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Introduction



PART I: THE BEGINNING OF COLONIAL FILM CULTURE IN IMPERIAL GERMANY



Chapter 1. From the Variety Theatre to the German Colonial Society

Chapter 2. Carl Müller: A Colonial Film Maker

Chapter 3. The DKG’s Film Shows: The Colonies in Motion



PART II: ADDRESSING THE MASSES



Chapter 4. The ‘Hottentot Election’ of 1907

Chapter 5. The DKG’s Kinematographenkampagne

Chapter 6. Rise and Fall of the Kinemtographenkampagne



PART III: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKING IN THE COLONIES



Chapter 7. Karl Weule in German East Africa

Chapter 8. The Expedition in Context: Modern German Ethnography

Chapter 9. Filming in the Colonies: Training and Improvisation



PART IV: TOURISM, ENTERTAINMENT, AND COLONIAL IDEOLOGY



Chapter 10. Colonial Films in Public Cinema

Chapter 11. The Colonial Travelogue

Chapter 12. Colonial Films in Transition: Robert Schumann’s Comeback



PART V: COLONIAL FILM PROPAGANDA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR



Chapter 13. Setting Up Colonial War Propaganda

Chapter 14. The Deutsche Kolonial-Filmgesellschaft (DEUKO)



Conclusion



Filmography

Bibliography

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