scholarly journals Extending the local: documentary film festivals in East Asia as sites of connection and communication

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tit Leung CHEUNG
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Festivals

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

Elsewhere: The Last Circus

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Bilal Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
True False ◽  
Falling In Love

FQ columnist Bilal Qureshi reports from his first visit to the documentary film festival True/False in Columbia, Missouri. Overcoming his initial trepidation—both at the prospect of traveling just as the coronavirus was gathering steam and at the festival's regional location—Qureshi finds himself falling in love with film festivals all over again. Yet the contact high of the collective experience provided by the festival, with its freedom to collide with films and audiences through impromptu gatherings and celebrations, takes on a heightened poignancy in this moment of COVID-19. While noting the uncertainties of the new cinematic and social order that will emerge post-COVID, Qureshi hopes that the opportunity to press reset might result in more small-scale, community-focused festivals like True/False.

Examining Markets, Marketing, Consumers, and Society through Documentary Films

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Belk
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Historical Film ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Access

Documentary film is over 100 years old and includes subgenres such as ethnography, historical film, docu-drama, propaganda, and advocacy videos. With numerous film archives, film festivals, special DVD issues of journals, inexpensive video recording and editing equipment, Internet distribution, and the phenomenal growth of archival Internet sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, there are now hundreds of millions of documentary films and videos available to the interested researcher. The author argues that the macromarketing field has greatly underutilized this vast resource and suggests examples of sources and uses for such material. The author also suggests some aids for acquiring critical visual literacy skills to inform such analyses. Just as we rely on our libraries and online access for books and print journals, we can readily do the same with documentary films. Such analytical projects can be presented as either video documentaries themselves, as text-based articles and books, or as multimedia combinations. Film, video, Internet, and television images arguably do more to influence public perceptions of marketing, consumption, and life than any other medium. There is thus a great opportunity to understand society through this window on the world.

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