Komedi Bioscoop e-bog
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This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society.The Komedi Bioscoop traces the emergence of a local culture of movie-going in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) from 1896 until 1914. It outlines the introduction of the new technology by independent touring exhibitors, the constitution of a market fo...
E-bog
127,71 DKK
Forlag
John Libbey Publishing
Udgivet
1 august 2016
Genrer
APFA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780861969234
This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society.The Komedi Bioscoop traces the emergence of a local culture of movie-going in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) from 1896 until 1914. It outlines the introduction of the new technology by independent touring exhibitors, the constitution of a market for moving picture shows, the embedding of moving picture exhibitions within the local popular entertainment scene, and the Dutch colonial authorities' efforts to control film consumption and distribution.Dafna Ruppin focuses on the cinema as a social institution in which technology, race, and colonialism converged. In her illuminating study, moving picture venues in the Indies-ranging from canvas or bamboo tents to cinema palaces of brick and stone-are perceived as liminal spaces in which daily interactions across boundaries could occur within colonial Indonesia's multi-ethnic and increasingly polarized colonial society.