Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing together a range of international scholars, the book sheds new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in the colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrate the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A powerful book that addresses the relationship between documentary films and postcolonialism in South-East Asia...the book's attempt to push the reflection on the relationship between visuality and colonial legacies beyond pre-determined styles and discourses is noteworthy. -- GIANMARCO MANCOSU, University of Warwick * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * A powerful book that addresses the relationship between documentary films and postcolonialism in South-East Asia...the book's attempt to push the reflection on the relationship between visuality and colonial legacies beyond pre-determined styles and discourses is noteworthy. -- GIANMARCO MANCOSU, University of Warwick * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * Documentary cinema and related forms of state produced film framed and facilitated the colonization of South and South-East Asia, and this important new volume explores that history across the region and the twentieth century. By doing so it makes a significant and singular contribution to the burgeoning scholarly work on the political uses of cinema, particularly in sustaining imperialism and across the partial, halting, transition to "post-colonial" states.' -- Dr Lee Grieveson, University College London
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Verlagsort
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Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
15 black and white illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 239 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-0720-5 (9781474407205)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ian Aitken is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications include Hong Kong Documentary Film (2014), Lukacsian Film Theory and Cinema: An Analysis of Georg Lukacs' Writings on Film 1913-1971 (2012), The Major Realist Film Theorists, (2016), Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asian (2016) and Cinematic Realism (2020). Camille Deprez is Research Assistant Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. A specialist of Indian documentary cinema and French colonial documentary in Asia, she is the co-editor of Post-1990 Documentary: Reconfiguring Independence (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
Herausgeber*in
Professor of Film StudiesHong Kong Baptist University
Research Assistant ProfessorHong Kong Baptist University
Table of ContentIntroduction
Part 1. Issues of Colonialism, Late Colonialism and IndependenceChapter 1. The People's Action Party Government of Singapore and Berita Singapura (Ian Aitken)Chapter 2. Merdeka for Malaya: Imagining Independence Across the British Empire (Tom Rice)Chapter 3. The Language of Counterinsurgency in Malaya: Dialectical Soundscapes of Salvage and Warfare (Peter J. Bloom)Chapter 4. Figures of Empire: American Documentaries in the Philippines (Jose B. Capino)
Part 2. Missionary Films and Christian EvangelismChapter 5. Two Films and a Coronation: The Containment of Islam in Flores in the 1920s (Sandeep Ray) Chapter 6. Paradoxical Legacies: Colonial Missionary Films, Corporate Philanthropy in South Asia and the Griersonian Documentary Tradition (Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes)Chapter 7. Conversion, Salvation and the 'Civilising Mission': Christian Missions and Documentary Film in India (1900-1960) (Emma Sandon)
Part 3. Documentary representations: Projections, Idealised and Imaginary ImagesChapter 8. Screening the Revolution in Rural Vietnam: Guerrilla Cinema across the Mekong Delta (Thong Win)Chapter 9. Ho Chi Minh in France: An Early Independence Newsreel (Dean Wilson)Chapter 10. Archives of the Planet: French Elitist Representations of Colonial India (Camille Deprez)Chapter 11. 'Sufficient Dramatic or Adventure Interest': Authenticity, Reality and Violence in Pre-War Animal Documentaries from South-East Asia (Timothy P. Barnard)
List of ContributorsIndex
