Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in the Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Quezon City, Philippines
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9786214481774
Copyright date: 2022
Description: This book brings together film scholars, archivists, film artists, academics, media practitioners, historians, and cultural advocates to share their thoughts that touch the heart of our Asian film heritage. In four themes, the sections in this anthology deal with topics such as Archives and Memory, Archives and National Identity, Archives and the Asia-Pacific, and Archives and Cinema History. Merely over a century old, films produced in the region are already irredeemably lost. Works made by filmmakers like Yasujiro Ozu, King Hu, Lino Brocka, Woon-kyu Na, and Ji-ming He, to name a few, have disappeared through natural causes, technological obsolescence, and human neglect. How much has the loss of their films impoverished our knowledge of Asian cinema? What future awaits those that still survive of the analogue and the digital native productions? In addressing these themes, the book significantly contributes to the deepening knowledge not only about archiving in the region but also about the film culture wrapping around the motion pictures, which archives seek to preserve.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: Ray Edmondson
pagenum: ix; label: Acknowledgements
title: xiv; label: Introduction
title: Nick Deocampo
pagenum: 1; title: Archives and Memory: Memory is the Most Personal of Archives; label: Treading in Little Steps: My Asian Cinema Jigsaw
title: Dina Iordanova
pagenum: 19; label: Archival Encounters with the US–Trans-Pacific Empire
title: Charles Musser
pagenum: 32; label: The Unfolding Tragedy of Loss
title: Mick Newnham
pagenum: 45; label: Tablula Rasa: On My Way to Archival Consciousness I Reached Henry Francia
title: Benedict "Bono" Salazar Olgado
pagenum: 52; label: Memories Don't Leave Like People Do . . .
title: Joie Springer
pagenum: 63; title: Archives and National Identity: Evolving National Identity Through Archives; label: Archives, Cinema, and National Identity: Some Reflections
title: Wimal Dissanayake
pagenum: 75; label: Archival Lacunae, Vernacular Filmmaking, and the Elisions of National Cinema
title: Bliss Cua Lim
pagenum: 82; label: Motion Pictures Film Exhibition of 1921: Reinforcement of National Identity and Film Archiving in Japan
title: Akira Tochigi
pagenum: 96; label: Bringing Film Heritage in India Back from the Brink
title: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
pagenum: 105; label: Film Archives, Collection Policies, and "National Identity": Some Reflections
title: David Hanan
pagenum: 117; label: Made in Hong Kong—Preserving the Hong Kong Identity
title: Bede Cheng
pagenum: 128; label: The Challenges in Archiving and Preserving Moving Image Materials at the Vietnam Film Institute
title: Nguyen Minh Phuong
pagenum: 138; title: Archives and the Asia-Pacific: The Significance of Archives in Defining the Region; label: A Transnational Approach to Early Cinema in Southeast Asian Archives
title: Nadi Tofighian
pagenum: 145; label: An Archive for the Future
title: Karen Chan
pagenum: 155; label: From Pandemic to Media Crisis: Open Access and East Asian Film Archives
title: Aaron Gerow
pagenum: 165; label: Preserving the Film and Audiovisual Heritage of the Pacific
title: Joshua Harris
pagenum: 176; title: Archives and Cinema History: Constructing Cinema History Through Archives; label: Asian Women Filmmakers and the Digital Archive: The View from Hong Kong
title: Gina Marchetti
pagenum: 191; label: Motion Picture Archives and Retrieving "Lost" Film Histories
title: Nick Deocampo
pagenum: 206; label: A New Climate for Audiovisual History
title: Stephen Bottomore
pagenum: 219; label: About the Authors
title: 231; label: Index
title: 237