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NEWS ROUND-UP |
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Launchng of
SEAPAVAA Book … from page 1
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countries, namely : ·
Cambodia (A Survey of Film in
Cambodia by Ingrid Muan and Daravuth Ly ) ·
Indonesia (The History of Indonesian
Cinema at a Glance by H. Misbach Yusa Biran) ·
Laos (Lao Cinema by Bounchao
Pichit) ·
Malaysia (A Brief History of
Malaysian Film by Baharudin Latif) ·
Philippines (A Brief History of Philippine
Cinema by Agustin Softo) ·
Singapore (Film in Singapore from
1972: The Reconstruction of a Film Industry by Philip Cheah) ·
Thailand (Cinema in Thailand to 1970 by
Chalida Uabumrungiit and Thai Cinema Since 1970 by Anchalee
Chaiworapon) |
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·
Vietnam (A Brief History of
Vietnamese Films by Pham Ngoc Truong) The book
also provides succinct readings of the history of film in two countries in
the neighbouring Asia Pacific region, Australia (Telling Stories of
the Australian Cinema by Deb Verhoeven) and New Zealand (Moving
Images in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jonathan Dennis). The essays in this
volume also provide some sharp thumbnail sketches of recent developments in
film in the countries of the region, in historical context. Most of the
essays have been written by people who, in one way or another, closely
associated with the film world in their own country. In this sense, the views
presented here are not only views from the region, but also of the |
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views of people who know their own national cinema very
well. Because
many of the essays in this book begin their accounts of cinema in their
country at the high point of western colonial penetration into South East
Asia, and carry their stories forward through periods of turmoil leading to
independent nationhood and the early years of a new nation, as well as to the
present day, this book also contains significant material about the social
history of both colonial and immediately postcolonial periods. For
inquiries, please contact: Belina SB. Capul, Secretary General, at the
SEAPAVAA Secretariat with phone no. (632) 921-7941 local 4122/4122, telefax
no.(632) 9204395 and email address at mpd@pia.gov.ph |
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Aboriginal director Tracy
Moffat’s extraordinary stylized picture, BeDevil (1993), made up of
three ghost stories based around incidents in the life of aboriginal
communities, a film resonant with a haunting sense of the marginalized
position of aborigines, even in multicultural Australian society. Shot
largely in a studio, this film is one of the most original feature films ever
made in Australia. (Courtesy of Anthony Buckley Productions Pty. Ltd., and
the Documentation Collection, ScreenSound Australia, the National Film and
Sound Archive) |
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Poster for Cherd Songsri’s 1977
film Phlae Kao (The Scar) a film which attracted much attention both
in Thailand and internationally. Many of Cherd’s films recreate a sense of
traditional, rural, pre-modern Thailand, seeing the basis of the Thai
personality in rural life and rural traditions. (Courtesy of Thai National
Film Archive) |
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Page 11 – AV Archives Bulletin |
January-June
2000
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