Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

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Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia is written by Ian Aitken and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474407226 (ISBN 10) and 9781474407229 (ISBN 13).

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.