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Author : José B. Capino
Release : 2010
Genre : Culture in motion pictures
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Book Rating : 27X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dream Factories of a Former Colony by : José B. Capino
Download or read book Dream Factories of a Former Colony written by José B. Capino. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Aitken
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 218/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia by : Ian Aitken
Download or read book Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia written by Ian Aitken. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nadine Chan
Release : 2022-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theorizing Colonial Cinema by : Nadine Chan
Download or read book Theorizing Colonial Cinema written by Nadine Chan. This book was released on 2022-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.
Author : Celine Parreãs Shimizu
Release : 2020-01-07
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Proximity of Other Skins by : Celine Parreãs Shimizu
Download or read book The Proximity of Other Skins written by Celine Parreãs Shimizu. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transnational films representing intimacy and inequality disrupt and disgust Western spectators. When wounded bodies within poverty entangle with healthy wealthy bodies in sex, romance and care, fear and hatred combine with desire and fetishism. Works from the Philippines, South Korea, and independents from the U.S. and France may not be made for the West and may not make use of Hollywood traditions. Rather, they demand recognition for the knowledge they produce beyond our existing frames. They challenge us to go beyond passive consumption, or introspection of ourselves as spectators, for they represent new ways of world-making we cannot unsee, unhear or unfeel. The spectator is redirected to go beyond the rapture of consuming the other to the rupture that arises from witnessing pain and suffering. Self-displacement is what proximity to intimate inequality in cinema ultimately compels and demands so as to establish an ethical way of relating to others. In undoing the spectator, the voice of the transnational filmmaker emerges. Not only do we need to listen to filmmakers from outside Hollywood who unflinchingly engage the inexpressibility of difference, we need to make room for critics and theorists who prioritize the subjectivities of others. When the demographics of filmmakers and film scholars are not as diverse as its spectators, films narrow our world views. To recognize our culpability in the denigration of others unleashes the power of cinema. The unbearability of stories we don't want to watch and don't want to feel must be born. Film, Sex, Race, Transnationalism, Ethics"--
Author : Patrice Petro
Release : 2022-06-17
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 965/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Uncanny Histories in Film and Media by : Patrice Petro
Download or read book Uncanny Histories in Film and Media written by Patrice Petro. This book was released on 2022-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamiliar or mysterious or strange. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors remind us that at the heart of the uncanny, and indeed the writing of history, is a troubling of definitions, a challenge to our inherited narratives, and a disturbance of what was once familiar in the uncanny histories of our field.
