The British Official Film in South-East Asia Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong
The British Official Film in South-East Asia Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong by Ian Aitken is published by Palgrave Macmillan UK and was released on December 1, 2016. This 1st edition, comprising 248 pages, examines the role of British official films in Malaya, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken investigates how these films and the associated information agencies adapted to significant historical changes, including the Cold War and the decline of the British Empire.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of the British documentary film movement and its influence in the region during the post-war era, alongside the competing ‘Colonial Office’ tradition of filmmaking. The book also addresses the emergence of television in these areas, particularly in relation to the evolving political landscape of post-colonial authoritarian states in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as the persistence of colonial authoritarianism in Hong Kong. This work contributes to discussions in subjects such as film, social science, and history, providing a comprehensive overview of a pivotal period in the region’s cinematic history.
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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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