EAN: 9781137493439

THE BRITISH OFFICIAL FILM IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA - ...

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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