The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Ian Aitken; Camille Deprez

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474407212

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About this book

The first anthology to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions

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.

Key features

Case studies of films and series include: the Berita Singapura film series; Merdeka for Malaya; Ho Chi Minh in France; Flores Film; Ria Rago; Archives of the Planet series
Focuses on regions in South and South-East Asia including: Singapore; Malaya; India; Indonesia; Vietnam; and the Philippines
Analyses missionary films, travelogues, newsreels, TV series and guerrilla documentaries

To find out more visit Hong Kong Baptist University’s research website on the Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Contributors

Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University
Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore
Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara
José B. Capino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Camille Deprez, Hong Kong Baptist University
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, University of Cambridge
Sandeep Ray, Rice University
Tom Rice, University of St Andrews
Emma Sandon, Birkbeck, University of London
Dean Wilson, University of Montreal
Thong Win, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Issues of Colonialism, Late Colonialism and Independence
1. The People’s Action Party Government of Singapore and Berita Singapura Ian Aitken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Merdeka for Malaya: Imagining Independence across the British Empire Tom Rice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. The Language of Counterinsurgency in Malaya: Dialectical Soundscapes of Salvage and Warfare Peter J. Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. Figures of Empire: American Documentaries in the Philippines José B. Capino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Part II Missionary Films and Christian Evangelism
5. Two Films and a Coronation: The Containment of Islam in Flores in the 1920s Sandeep Ray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6. Paradoxical Legacies: Colonial Missionary Films, Corporate Philanthropy in South Asia and the Griersonian Documentary Tradition Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
7. Conversion, Salvation and the ‘Civilising Mission’: Christian Missions and Documentary Film in India (1900–60) Emma Sandon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Part III Documentary Representations: Projections, Idealised and Imaginary Images
8. Screening the Revolution in Rural Vietnam: Guerrilla Cinema Across the Mekong Delta Thong Win Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
9. Ho Chi Minh in France: An Early Independence Newsreel Dean Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
10. Archives of the Planet: French Elitist Representations of Colonial India Camille Deprez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
11. ‘Sufficient Dramatic or Adventure Interest’: Authenticity, Reality and Violence in Pre-War Animal Documentaries from South-East Asia Timothy P. Barnard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 15 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781474407212