CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: European Colonialism, Cinema Of Africa, Camp De Thiaroye
July 28, 2016
CIN LECTURE 22: POST-COLONIALISM
FINAL EXAM BREAKDOWN 3 hours
1. Multiple choice
2. Short essay (choice)
3. Definition sections (technical terms, conceptual terms, definition with reference to films,
etc. choice for each section 4/6)
• Actualités “things happening now”
• The history of film is bound up with issues of colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Two types of films were most influenced by the idea of colonialism
1) Travel Log (started and executed by the Lumière brothers)
actualities
interested in France
saw the benefits of recording things happening in the present within
different places (sent camera operators around the world to bring this to
cinema)
Ex. “Indochina, the village of Namo”, Factory film
enabled people to be world travellers without actually travelling anywhere
2) Ethnographic Film
Preserving the cultural and rituals of peoples (so that it could be
researched, documented, remembered)
Big influence from Anthropology
Ex. Alfred Cort Haddon’s team for his 1898 expedition to the Torres Strait Islands
Ex. Haddon’s film of Malu-Bomai ceremony
Ex. Walter Baldwin Spencer’s team for his 1901 expedition to Central Australia
Still, had to have action and narrative flow
Ex. Robert Flaherty and his documentary “Nanook of the North”
• Early Colonialist films served…
To institutionalize certain looking relations that have endured into the present
People tended to function as spectacle (filmmakers could bring back these
films to show an audience)
Social difference was capitalized on—these films then crystallized those
differences, because the films clarified them
Rudyard Kipling on “the white man’s burden” cinema contributed to
this through Travel Logs and Ethnographic Films
• What is Post-Colonialism?
End of the European colonialism era post-1945
• Goals of Post-Colonial Counter-Cinema
To counter colonial ideology
To press film technology in the service of local narrative traditions
To rectify omissions to dominant historical accounts
To imagine a pre-colonial past
To imagine a truly post-colonial future
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Document Summary
Cin lecture 22: post-colonialism: multiple choice, short essay (choice, definition sections (technical terms, conceptual terms, definition with reference to films, etc. Saw the benefits of recording things happening in the present within different places (sent camera operators around the world to bring this to cinema) Enabled people to be world travellers without actually travelling anywhere: ethnographic film. Preserving the cultural and rituals of peoples (so that it could be researched, documented, remembered) Alfred cort haddon"s team for his 1898 expedition to the torres strait islands. Walter baldwin spencer"s team for his 1901 expedition to central australia. Still, had to have action and narrative flow. Robert flaherty and his documentary nanook of the north : early colonialist films served . To institutionalize certain looking relations that have endured into the present. People tended to function as spectacle (filmmakers could bring back these films to show an audience)
