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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Recalibrating Modernity: East Asian Socially Engaged Documentary and the Evocation of Another World

Author : Dan Edwards

Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter explores, expands, and updates Chris Berry’s notion of a “socially engaged mode of independent documentary” in East Asia. Focusing on documentaries made in Japan, South Korea, and China, it argues that socially engaged practices represent a set of related, though distinct, celebrations of localized vernacular cultures in the face of an ever-intensifying process of globalization. Behind this celebration lies the possibility of a fundamentally recalibrated relationship to modernity, built around local needs, expressions, and community participation, rather than the needs of transnational capital. These claims are explored through the films of Ogawa Shinsuke, Kim Dong-won, and Ou Ning—filmmakers whose work has engaged very directly with struggles related to the expropriation of land and the breakup of existing communities in their respective countries.

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Metadata
Title
Recalibrating Modernity: East Asian Socially Engaged Documentary and the Evocation of Another World
Author
Dan Edwards
Copyright Year
2018
Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-95821-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-95822-1

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95822-1_30