Dr Chris Neilan C.Neilan@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
A Story of Bones: Absorbing Documentary Unearths Colonial Crimes in St Helena
Neilan, Chris
Authors
Abstract
A community’s fight to properly honour the 9,000 formally enslaved Africans found in a mass grave in Saint Helena tells a wider story of traumatic colonial legacy in Dominic Aubrey De Vere and Joseph Curran’s sobering documentary.
Citation
Neilan, C. (2024). A Story of Bones: Absorbing Documentary Unearths Colonial Crimes in St Helena
| Online Publication Date | Aug 5, 2024 |
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| Publication Date | Aug 5, 2024 |
| Deposit Date | Apr 24, 2025 |
| Keywords | Film, Review, Documentary, Sight and Sound |
| Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4245491 |
| Publisher URL | https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/story-bones-absorbing-documentary-unearths-colonial-crimes-saint-helena |
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