The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

ISBN-13: 9781474431965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Ian Aitken; Camille Deprez

Opis

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.

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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