Early Cinema in Asia Deocampo, Nick; Musser, Charles; Bottomore, Stephen ...
09/2017
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Covering diverse locations, including China, India, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, and the countries of the Pacific Islands, contributors to this volume reveal the story of early ...cinema in Asia, helping us to understand the first seeds of a medium that has since grown deep roots in the region.
Rapid-setting binders such as Belitic Calcium Sulfoaluminate (BCSA) are increasingly important as the demand for rehabilitation and fast return to service of roads and bridges grows. Speed of ...construction, low shrinkage, and low carbon footprint are the key features of BCSA concrete. The binder was first developed in the United States in the mid-seventies. It allows pavement, bridge decks or other concrete infrastructure to be replaced and returned to service in a matter of hours. BCSA concrete slabs placed at the Seattle International Airport (SEA) in the 1990s are still in service 20 years later. The binder also allows innovation in pavement design. Taking advantage of the low shrinkage of BCSA concrete, a single 40 ft x 40 ft airport slab without joints was placed at this airport, as an alternative to the placement of four contiguous conventional-size portland slabs. BCSA was also to be the basis for the design of various rapid-setting performance-engineered concretes, such as low-permeability or UHPC concrete. This paper will review recent concrete applications based on BCSA cement, and the opportunities they offer in building a more resilient, lower carbon concrete infrastructure.
This article explores how early American cinema and US imperialism are inextricably bound together in a thorough exploration of cinematic representations of the Philippines in US film both during and ...immediately after US colonization of the islands. The article carefully considers the significance of the film and discursive records remaining from the 1898-1904 period in order to explore how filmic representations reproduced US imperialist ideologies and spread US imperialist fantasies as a commodity.
Introduction Nick Deocampo
Early Cinema in Asia,
09/2017
Book Chapter
The history of early cinema in Asia remains largely unwritten, perhaps because the region tends to place a strong emphasis on national cinemas—one that affirms the present-day popularity of motion ...pictures while forgetting their historical beginnings. When people speak of Asian cinema, they often talk about Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Thai, Filipino, Malaysian, Indonesian, Hong Kong, Vietnamese, Iranian, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and other national cinemas. After more than a century of motion pictures, cinema in Asia has become as diverse as the region’s multistate configuration. But what identity did cinema have when it first arrived? Was cinema always identified
The formative years of cinema coincided with a major historical juncture in the Philippines: the decline of Spanish rule, the birth of the Filipino nation, and the advance of American imperialism. ...This includes the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution against the Spaniards in 1896, the declaration of the shortlived Philippine Republic in 1898, the American defeat of Spain at the Battle of Manila Bay, the resulting American occupation of the islands, and the Philippine-American War in 1899, which led to American colonization. Cinema was introduced during this whirlpool of change, and its growth paralleled historical events surrounding and shaping the
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