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Title The colonial documentary film in South and South-East Asia / edited by Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Issues of Colonialism, Late Colonialism and Independence -- 1. People's Action Party Government of Singapore and Berita Singapura / Ian Aitken -- 2. Merdeka for Malaya: Imagining Independence across the British Empire / Tom Rice -- 3. Language of Counterinsurgency in Malaya: Dialectical Soundscapes of Salvage and Warfare / Peter J. Bloom -- 4. Figures of Empire: American Documentaries in the Philippines / Jose B. Capino -- pt. II Missionary Films and Christian Evangelism -- 5. Two Films and a Coronation: The Containment of Islam in Flores in the 1920s / Sandeep Ray -- 6. Paradoxical Legacies: Colonial Missionary Films, Corporate Philanthropy in South Asia and the Griersonian Documentary Tradition / Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes -- 7. Conversion, Salvation and the 'Civilising Mission': Christian Missions and Documentary Film in India (1900-60) / Emma Sandon -- pt. III Documentary Representations: Projections, Idealised and Imaginary Images -- 8. Screening the Revolution in Rural Vietnam: Guerrilla Cinema Across the Mekong Delta / Thong Win -- 9. Ho Chi Minh in France: An Early Independence Newsreel / Dean Wilson -- 10. Archives of the Planet: French Elitist Representations of Colonial India / Camille Deprez -- 11. 'Sufficient Dramatic or Adventure Interest': Authenticity, Reality and Violence in Pre-War Animal Documentaries from South-East Asia / Timothy P. Barnard.
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Subject Documentary films -- Southeast Asia -- History and criticism.
Documentary films.
Southeast Asia.
Documentary films -- South Asia -- History and criticism.
South Asia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Aitken, Ian, editor.
Deprez, Camille, 1977- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 147440720X 9781474407205 (OCoLC)967065547
ISBN 9781474407212 (electronic book)
1474407218 (electronic book)
9781474430487
1474430481
147440720X
9781474407205
Standard No. 99970878699