Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
ISBN-10
1474407218
ISBN-13
9781474407212
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2016-12-05
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Ian Aitken

Description

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.

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