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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, Sandeep.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Ethnology--Archival resources.

Ethnology.

Archival resources.

Ethnographic films.

Motion pictures--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Ethnology--Indonesia--Archival resources.

Ethnology--Indonesia--History--Sources.

Ethnology--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Ethnographic films--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Indonesia.

Indonesia--History--Archival resources.

Indonesia--History--20th century--Sources.

Indonesia--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Celluloid Colony

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Half title page

Full title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION - A Case for Outcasts

Chapter 1 - Situating Early Non-fiction Film in Colonial Studies

Chapter 2 - Obscurity and Rehabilitation of the Dutch East Indies Propaganda Film Collection

Chapter 3 - The Colonial Institute and Propaganda Film (1912-13)

Chapter 4 - Corporate Films (1917-27)

Chapter 5 - Films with a Mission(1923-30)

Chapter 6 - Dismantling the Picturesque

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789813251724

9813251727

OCLC:

1257554189