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The past today: analysing Asian Historical Movies

Nicolau, Mariana (2024) COSM40 20241
Centre 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
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
date added to LUP
2024-06-17 13:48:53
date last changed
2024-06-17 13:48:53
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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Nicolau, Mariana}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The past today: analysing Asian Historical Movies}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}