'Documentary cinema and related forms of state-produced film framed and facilitated the colonisation of South and South-East Asia, and this important new volume explores that history across the region and the twentieth century. By doing so it makes a significant and singular contribution to the burgeoning scholarly work on the political uses of cinema, particularly in sustaining imperialism and across the partial, halting, transition to "post-colonial" states.' Lee Grieveson, University College London Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing together a range of international scholars, the book sheds new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in the colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial/postcolonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrates the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region. Ian Aitken is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. Camille Deprez is Research Assistant Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Cover image: Voices of Malaya, directed by ELTON Ralph, 1948. Image courtesy of the BFI Stills Collection Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0720-5 Barcode