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Playing the Game
Title
Playing the Game [electronic resource] / Open University.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2012.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (58 min.)) : sd., col.
Local Notes
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 13, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Guns and bombs may be the chief weapons of imperialism, but never underestimate the power of leisure; a kingdom's worth nothing without it! This program measures the global rise of British rule by tracing the growth of a particularly British type of hero-adventurer, gentleman, amateur sportsman, and decent chap-as well as a decidedly British type of obsession: sport, the empire at play. Viewers are taken to East Africa in the footsteps of Victorian explorers in search of the source of the Nile; to Khartoum, to tell the story of General Gordon, a half-crazed visionary who "played the game" to the hilt; to Hong Kong, where the British indulged their passion for horse racing by building a spectacular race course; and to Jamaica, where the greatest imperial game of all-cricket-became a battleground for racial equality.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Open University, 2012.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Empire: A British Chronicle
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Limitless Adventure in the Colonies (2:27)
Early Pioneers of Empire (2:41)
Discovering Lake Victoria (3:01)
"King Solomon's Mines" (3:48)
A Decent Chap (2:10)
Shaping Imperial Character (2:47)
British Fair Play Ideology (1:24)
"Vitaï Lampada" (1:59)
Siege of Khartoum (3:50)
An Imperial Tragedy (3:35)
Sanctifying the Empire (1:24)
British Offensive in Sudan (3:29)
Battle of Omdurman (2:31)
Fearless Idealism Wins (2:09)
Targeting Armchair Adventurers (2:13)
Civilizing through Sport (4:26)
Imperial Racism (2:30)
Fair Play Undermines Imperial Rule (3:21)
"Ripping Yarns" (3:30)
Boy Scouts: An Imperial Relic (4:01)
Credits: Playing the Game: Empire - A British Chronicle (0:41)
Videorecording number
51983 Infobase
51980s Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Open University.
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