Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Aitken, Ian; Deprez, Camille

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474407212
• Artikelnr.: 50403176

Autorenporträt

Ian Aitken is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. Camille Deprez is Research Assistant Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Content
Introduction
Part 1. Issues of Colonialism, Late Colonialism and Independence
Chapter 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
(José B. Capino)
Part 2. Missionary Films and Christian Evangelism
Chapter 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
Images
Chapter 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 Contributors
Index