Overview
- Based on extensive primary research into previously un-researched documents
- Explores the ways in which the British official film was used in British South-East Asia from 1945 to the 1970s
- Looks at how the British official film, and British information agencies, adapted to the contexts of the Cold War and the end of empire
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British official information agencies, adapted to the epochal contexts of the Cold War and end of empire. In addition to an extensive introduction, which touches on a number of critical issues related to the post-war British official film, the book provides an account of how the tradition of film-making associated with the British documentary film movement spread into the region during the post-war period, and how that tradition was contested by a ‘Colonial Office’ tradition of film-making. The volume concludes by covering the rise of television in the region within the context of developing post-colonial authoritarian states in Singapore and Malaysia, and the continuation of colonial authoritarianism in Hong Kong.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The British Official Film in South-East Asia
Book Subtitle: Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong
Authors: Ian Aitken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49344-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49343-9Published: 01 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49344-6Published: 22 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 248
Topics: British Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Film History, Imperialism and Colonialism