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Title Theorizing colonial cinema : reframing production, circulation, and consumption of film in Asia / edited by Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Takushi Odagiri, and Moonim Baek
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations
Series New directions in national cinemas
New directions in national cinemas.
Contents On romanization, naming, and translation -- Time, race, and the asynchronous in the colonial documentaries of Malaya / Nadine Chan -- Facing malcontent colonial Korean comrades : a typology of colonial cinema in Asia's socialist alliances / Moonim Baek -- Colonial-era film theory, spectatorship, and the problem of internalization / Aaron Gerow -- Chinese cinema's other : wrangling over "China-humiliating" films (ruHua pian) / Yiman Wang -- World export : melodramas of colonial conquest / Jane M. Gaines -- Tarzan/Taishan and other orphans : Taiwan's melodrama of decolonization / Zhang Zhen -- What is an auteur? Hŏ Yŏng/Hinatsu Eitarō/Huyung between (post)colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea / Thomas Barker and Nikki J. Y. Lee -- Cinema's coloniality / Takushi Odagiri -- A hallucinatory history of the Philippine-American War : Khavn's Balangiga : howling wilderness / José B. Capino -- Millennial vengeance : Park Chan-Wook's Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the return of postcolonial Japonisme / Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2021)
Subject Motion pictures -- Asia -- History
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Colonies -- Asia -- Civilization
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Colonies -- Civilization
Imperialism in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Asia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Film criticism
History
Film criticism.
Critiques cinématographiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Kwon, Nayoung Aimee, editor
Odagiri, Takushi, editor
Baek, Moonim, editor
LC no. 2021031448
ISBN 9780253059765
0253059763
9780253059772
0253059771