The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
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- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication date:
- 27 April 2017
- 27 April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474407212
- 9781474407205
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- Subjects:
- Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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Book description
The first anthology to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions.
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.
Key features- Case studies of films and series include: the Berita Singapura film series; Merdeka for Malaya; Ho Chi Minh in France; Flores Film; Ria Rago; Archives of the Planet series
- Focuses on regions in South and South-East Asia including: Singapore; Malaya; India; Indonesia; Vietnam; and the Philippines
- Analyses missionary films, travelogues, newsreels, TV series and guerrilla documentaries
- Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore
- Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara
- José B. Capino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Camille Deprez, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, University of Cambridge
- Sandeep Ray, Rice University
- Tom Rice, University of St Andrews
- Emma Sandon, Birkbeck, University of London
- Dean Wilson, University of Montreal
- Thong Win, University of California, Santa Barbara
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