Colonial cinema is: cinema produced by, "a colonizing nation in." And about their colonies. While typically seen as a Western phenomenon, "non-Western countries," most notably Imperial Japan, also had colonial cinemas. Colonial films typically idealize life in the: colonies by emphasizing the——modernizing aspects of colonization. Feature films set in colonial settings typically represent them as refuges for colonizers looking——to escape life in the metropole. As a result, colonial films frequently do not attempt——to reflect the "social realities of life in colonized countries." Representations of local characters, places, and customs are regularly presented as escapist, apologetic/overtly racist. Today colonial cinema is an important source to understand the mentality of the colonizing societies.
Bibliography※
- Baskett, Michael (2008). The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3223-0.
- Boulanger, Pierre, Le cinéma colonial de "l'Atlantide" à "Lawrence d'Arabie", préf. de Guy Hennebelle, Paris : Seghers, 1975
- Slavin, David Henry, Colonial cinema and "imperial France," 1919-1939: white blind spots, male fantasies, settler myths, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,2001.
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