Early cinema in Asia /
"Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors to this volume document the struggle by pioneering figures to introduce the medium of...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the beginnings of cinema in Asia / Nick Deocampo
- Early Asian cinema and the public sphere / Wimal Dissanayake
- Nationalism, contradiction, and identity, or, A reconsideration of early cinema in the Philippines / Charles Musser
- Film's initial reception in China during its period of infancy / Ritsu Yamamoto
- Hong Kong's cinematic beginnings, 1896-1908 / Wai-ming Law
- How cinema arrived and stayed in Taiwan / Daw-Ming Lee
- One print in the age of mechanical reproduction : film industry and culture in 1910s Japan / Aaron Gerow
- Distributing Scandinavia : Nordisk Film in Asia / Nadi Tofighian
- The civilizing cinema mission : colonial beginnings of film in Indochina / Tilman Baumgartel
- A national cinema takes root in a colonial regime : early cinema in India / P.K. Nair
- Colonial beginnings of cinema in the Philippines / Nick Deocampo
- From shadow play to the silver screen : early Malay(sian) cinema / Hassan Abdul Muthalib
- Iranian cinema : before the revolution / Shahin Parhami
- Royalty shapes early Thai film culture / Anchalee Chaiworaporn
- "I was born but ..." : some thoughts on the origins of cinema in Asia / Stephen Bottomore
- Before Moana : early cinema of the Pacific / Stephen Bottomore
- Early cinema in Central Asia : the start of an ascent / Stephen Bottomore
- Appendix : chronology of film beginnings in Asia / Nick Deocampo.
