The Komedi Bioscoop, Kintop 4 - Early Cinema in Colonial Indonesia

Dafna Ruppin holds a PhD in Media and Performance Studies from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research on the exhibition, consumption and production of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies forms part of the research project "The Nation and Its Other" funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

List of contents

Prologue

Introduction

1. Trials and Tribulations of Early Traveling Shows, 1896-1898

2. The Dutch Come into the Picture

3. Komedi Bioscoop, Indische Films and the Localisation of Film

4. Surabaya: Queen City of Moving Picture Venues

5. Batavia: Capital of Chinese Cinema Venues

6. Semarang: The Battleground over the Permanent Fairground Town

7. Medan: The Making and Breaking of a Monopoly

Concluding remarks

Bibliography

About the author

Dafna Ruppin

Product details

• Authors: Dafna Ruppin
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780861967230
• ISBN: 978-0-86196-723-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 777 g
• Series: Kintop Studies in Early Cinema; KINtop Studies in Early Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous