The past today: analysing Asian Historical Movies
(2024) COSM40 20241Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Abstract
- This thesis analyses collective memory in Contemporary Asian Societies through historical movies. It takes a borderless approach to infer the perception of the past in the Asian continent, filling the gap in a field mostly dominated by case studies. Asian historical movies are used as the data source of the analysis, following the historiophoty framework designed by White(1988) and Rosenstone (1988), where films are used instead of documents to analyse collective memory and history. The analysis was based on finding patterns in the data. The results highlight the implications of state-controlled media in shaping collective history versus its contestation from independent film makers, cyclical versus linear conceptions of time, the relative... (More)
- This thesis analyses collective memory in Contemporary Asian Societies through historical movies. It takes a borderless approach to infer the perception of the past in the Asian continent, filling the gap in a field mostly dominated by case studies. Asian historical movies are used as the data source of the analysis, following the historiophoty framework designed by White(1988) and Rosenstone (1988), where films are used instead of documents to analyse collective memory and history. The analysis was based on finding patterns in the data. The results highlight the implications of state-controlled media in shaping collective history versus its contestation from independent film makers, cyclical versus linear conceptions of time, the relative importance of accuracy in memory, and the reactions to collective trauma in film production. This study scratches the surface of an immense body of knowledge, and an serves as a call to the research of collective memory in the context of borderless Asia. (Less)
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- author
- Nicolau, Mariana
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- COSM40 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Asian historical movies/films, Collective memory, History in the present, Historiophoty, Transnational cinema, Connected history, Borderless Asia.
- language
- English
- id
- 9164633
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- 2024-06-17 13:48:53
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