Theorizing Colonial Cinema : Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia

**__Theorizing Colonial Cinema__** **is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia.** The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments On Romanization, Naming, and Translation Introduction: Revisioning Colonial Cinema / Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Takushi Odagiri Part I. Time and Racialized Other: Colonial Modernity and Early Cinema 1. Time, Race, and the Asynchronous in the Colonial Documentaries of Malaya / Nadine Chan 2. Facing Malcontent Colonial Korean Comrades: A Typology of Colonial Cinema in Asia’s Socialist Alliances / Moonim Baek 3. Colonial-Era Film Theory, Spectatorship, and the Problem of Internalization / Aaron Gerow 4. Chinese Cinema’s Other: Wrangling over “China-Humiliating” Films (ruHua pian) / Yiman Wang 5. World Export: Melodramas of Colonial Conquest / Jane M. Gaines Part II. Divided Mis-en-Scène: Colonial Cinema and Cold War Afterimages 6. Tarzan/Taishan and Other Orphans: Taiwan’s Melodrama of Decolonization / Zhang Zhen 7. What Is an Auteur? Ho Yong / Hinatsu Eitaro / Huyung between (Post) colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea / Thomas Barker and Nikki J. Y. Lee Part III. Millennial Hauntings: Rising Global Asian Cinemas 8. Cinema’s Coloniality / Takushi Odagiri 9. A Hallucinatory History of the Philippine-American War: Khavn’s Balangiga: Howling Wilderness / José B. Capino 10. Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-wook’s Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme / Nayoung Aimee Kwon Index Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.Winner of the SCMS Best Edited Collection Award! "Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past"-- Provided by publisher On romanization, naming, and translation -- Time, race, and the asynchronous in the colonial documentaries of Malaya / Nadine Chan -- Facing malcontent colonial Korean comrades : a typology of colonial cinema in Asia's socialist alliances / Moonim Baek -- Colonial-era film theory, spectatorship, and the problem of internalization / Aaron Gerow -- Chinese cinema's other : wrangling over "China-humiliating" films (ruHua pian) / Yiman Wang -- World export : melodramas of colonial conquest / Jane M. Gaines -- Tarzan/Taishan and other orphans : Taiwan's melodrama of decolonization / Zhang Zhen -- What is an auteur? Hŏ Yŏng/Hinatsu Eitarō/Huyung between (post)colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea / Thomas Barker and Nikki J. Y. Lee -- Cinema's coloniality / Takushi Odagiri -- A hallucinatory history of the Philippine-American War : Khavn's Balangiga : howling wilderness / José B. Capino -- Millennial vengeance : Park Chan-Wook's Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the return of postcolonial Japonisme / Nayoung Aimee Kwon A fascinating read combining film and Asian studies, Theorizing Colonial Cinema reveals new contexts within film theory, history, and ideologies as it centers the question of the colonial perspective and emphasizes how the present is constantly entangled with the colonial past.