Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia Ray Sandeep
Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia Ray Sandeep How should colonial film archives be read? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film…
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Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia Ray Sandeep
How should colonial film archives be read? 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. How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional written sources?
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. 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. While social histories of photography in non-European contexts have been an area of great interest in recent years; Celluloid