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

Ray, Sandeep

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9789813251380: Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia
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ISBN 10: 9813251387 ISBN 13: 9789813251380
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press, 2021

Synopsis

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—one that  is more accessible than ever today because of digitization. The language of film and the conventions and forms of nonfiction film were still in formation in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Colonialism, Ray shows, 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 for the first time brings moving images into the same scope of study.
 

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About the Author

Sandeep Ray is a filmmaker and a historian of Southeast Asia and is senior lecturer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
 

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Publisher
National University of Singapore Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9813251387
ISBN 13 
9789813251380
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
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