The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
ISBN 978-1-4744-0721-2 (ebook); 978-1-4744-0720-5 (hbk)
Introduction / Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez, 1
I. ISSUES OF COLONIALISM, LATE COLONIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE
1 The People's Action Party Government of Singapore and Berita Singapura / Ian Aitken, 29
2 Merdeka for Malaya: Imagining Independence across the British Empire / Tom Rice, 45
3 The Language of Counterinsurgency in Malaya: Dialectical Soundscapes of Salvage and Warfare / Peter J. Bloom, 63
4 Figures of Empire: American Documentaries in the Philippines / Jose B. Capino, 79
II. MISSIONARY FILMS AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM
5 Two Films and a Coronation: The Containment of Islam in Flores in the 1920s / Sandeep Ray, 107
6 Paradoxical Legacies: Colonial Missionary Films, Corporate Philanthropy in South Asia and the Griersonian Documentary Tradition / Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, 128
7 Conversion, Salvation and the 'Civilising Mission': Christian Missions and Documentary Film in India (1900-60) / Emma Sandon, 148
III. DOCUMENTARY REPRESENTATIONS: PROJECTIONS, IDEALISED AND IMAGINARY IMAGES
8 Screening the Revolution in Rural Vietnam: Guerrilla Cinema Across the Mekong Delta / Thong Win, 171
9 Ho Chi Minh in France: An Early Independence Newsreel / Dean Wilson, 186
10 Archives of the Planet: French Elitist Representations of Colonial India / Camille Deprez, 205
11 'Sufficient Dramatic or Adventure Interest': Authenticity, Reality and Violence in Pre-War Animal Documentaries from South-East Asia / Timothy P. Barnard, 223
I. ISSUES OF COLONIALISM, LATE COLONIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE
1 The People's Action Party Government of Singapore and Berita Singapura / Ian Aitken, 29
2 Merdeka for Malaya: Imagining Independence across the British Empire / Tom Rice, 45
3 The Language of Counterinsurgency in Malaya: Dialectical Soundscapes of Salvage and Warfare / Peter J. Bloom, 63
4 Figures of Empire: American Documentaries in the Philippines / Jose B. Capino, 79
II. MISSIONARY FILMS AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM
5 Two Films and a Coronation: The Containment of Islam in Flores in the 1920s / Sandeep Ray, 107
6 Paradoxical Legacies: Colonial Missionary Films, Corporate Philanthropy in South Asia and the Griersonian Documentary Tradition / Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, 128
7 Conversion, Salvation and the 'Civilising Mission': Christian Missions and Documentary Film in India (1900-60) / Emma Sandon, 148
III. DOCUMENTARY REPRESENTATIONS: PROJECTIONS, IDEALISED AND IMAGINARY IMAGES
8 Screening the Revolution in Rural Vietnam: Guerrilla Cinema Across the Mekong Delta / Thong Win, 171
9 Ho Chi Minh in France: An Early Independence Newsreel / Dean Wilson, 186
10 Archives of the Planet: French Elitist Representations of Colonial India / Camille Deprez, 205
11 'Sufficient Dramatic or Adventure Interest': Authenticity, Reality and Violence in Pre-War Animal Documentaries from South-East Asia / Timothy P. Barnard, 223
