The Komedi Bioscoop Early Cinema in Colonial Indonesia |
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| Author:
| Ruppin, Dafna |
| Series title: | KINtop Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-86196-923-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
| Publisher: | John Libbey & Company, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on the cinema as a social institution in which technology, race, and colonialism converged, 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.
Focusing on the cinema as a social institution in which technology, race, and colonialism converged, 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.