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Celluloid Colony : Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia

Author :  Sandeep Ray

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Country
Singapore
Publisher
NUS Press,Singapore
ISBN 9789813251380
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info xiv, 218p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Product Weight 356 gms.
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How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional written sources? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film in Indonesia to show how a critically-, historically- and cinematically-informed reading of colonial film in the archive can be a powerful and unexpected source, and one more easily accessible today via digitisation. The language of film and the conventions and forms of non-fiction film were still in formation in the first two decades of the 20th century. Colonialism was one of the drivers of this development, as the picturing of the native "other" in film was seen as an important tool to build support for missionary and colonial efforts. While social histories of photography in non-European contexts have been an area of great interest in recent years; Celluloid Colony brings moving images into the same scope of study.

Content Details

1. Indonesia - History - 20th century. 2. Indonesia - History - 20th century - Sources. 3. Indonesia - History - Archival resources. 4. Ethnology - Indonesia - History - 20th century. 5. Ethnology - Indonesia - History - Sources. 6. Ethnology - Indonesia - Archival resources. 7. Motion pictures - Indonesia - History - 20th century.

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