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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
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.
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Hong Kong documentary film
Ian Aitken and Michael Ingham traced a rich cinematic tradition, dating back to the 1890s, includes a thriving independent documentary film movement, a large archive of documentaries made by the colonial film units, and a number of classic British Official Films.
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The Major Realist Film Theorists
The first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin and Georg Lukács in one volume.
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The Documentary Film Movement
This book is the first to bring together the most important material by and on the documentary film movement which has laid the foundations of British national film culture.
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Menninger: Renewing the vision of success
Organizations without vision struggle to find hope and remain mere organizations, surviving but not living, hitting temporary targets, but not moving toward their potential. Adapted from the source document.
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The People’s Action Party Government of Singapore and Berita Singapura
This chapter will present a historical account of the 1960s Singaporean official film seriesBerita Singapura(1963–9).Berita Singapuraemerged out of the context of British decolonisation in South-East Asia, Singapore’s independence from Britain from 1959 onwards, and the territory’s entry into and eventual expulsion from the Federation of Malaysia. Above all, however,Berita Singapurawas the creation of and articulated the vision of the Singapore People’s Action Party (PAP) and its leader, the ubiquitous Lee Kuan Yew; who also appeared in manyBerita Singapurafilms. Because it would not be possible to understandBerita Singapuraoutside these contexts,
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Introduction
This new anthology is, in part, associated with research activities related to the South and South-East Asia Documentary Film Research programme, founded by Professor Ian Aitken and Dr Camille Deprez at the Academy of Film of Hong Kong Baptist University in June 2013. This research programme draws upon ongoing Hong Kong government-funded research projects;¹ a number of Hong Kong Baptist Universitygranted projects on British and French colonial documentary film in Asia; and three international conferences held at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2009, 2012 and 2013 respectively. In May 2015, the new South and South-East Asia Documentary Film Research website
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