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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'Documentary cinema and related forms of state-produced film framed and facilitated the colonisation of South and South-East Asia, and this important new volume explores that history across the region and the twentieth century. By doing so it makes a significant and singular contribution to the burgeoning scholarly work on the political uses of cinema, particularly in sustaining imperialism and across the partial, halting, transition to "post-colonial" states.' Lee Grieveson, University College London 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/postcolonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrates the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region. 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. Cover image: Voices of Malaya, directed by ELTON Ralph, 1948. Image courtesy of the BFI Stills Collection Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0720-5 Barcode Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentIntroductionPart 1. Issues of Colonialism, Late Colonialism and IndependenceChapter 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 EvangelismChapter 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 ImagesChapter 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 ContributorsIndex...
