Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- 37 Archives and Community Memory in the Pacific
- 38 Missing in Action
- 39 Rethinking Gender and Identity in Asia and the Pacific
- 40 Fifty Years of The Hawaiian Nation
- 41 Pacific Literature and History
- 42 Film and Pacific History
- 43 The Visual and Performing Arts of the Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
42 - Film and Pacific History
from Part VIII - Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- 37 Archives and Community Memory in the Pacific
- 38 Missing in Action
- 39 Rethinking Gender and Identity in Asia and the Pacific
- 40 Fifty Years of The Hawaiian Nation
- 41 Pacific Literature and History
- 42 Film and Pacific History
- 43 The Visual and Performing Arts of the Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
Summary
This chapter approaches the history of the cinema of Oceania as a window on the shifting beliefs, values, and relational understandings of filmmakers and their communities about the region. Embroiled in the dynamics of encounters between outsiders and insiders crossing imagined or actual beaches of Pacific worlds, the region's film history has seen a dramatic turn from a cinema of Oceania to what might be called an Oceanian cinema as decolonizing and empowering works by Indigenous and local filmmakers emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century.
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 266 - 285Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023