Making neighbours of the natives: colonial development, political independence, and documentary depictions of Western Samoa

IF 0.4 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Studies in Australasian Cinema Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17503175.2018.1427781
Simon Sigley
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ABSTRACT This article analyses three documentary films that the National Film Unit (NFU) of New Zealand made between 1947 and 1962 when Samoa was administered as a United Nations trust territory by the New Zealand government. I argue that the films display a discursive and cinematic shift over that time: from depicting Samoa as an idyllic paradise that ‘time forgot’ to a more realistic documentary style as Samoa became the first formerly colonised sovereign Pacific state in the twentieth century. While the films only superficially engage with the people and the culture they depict, omitting much that might conflict with positive messaging, and while they largely fail to engage with traditional Samoan mores (these are etic rather than emic depictions), as Western Samoa draws nearer to political independence, the NFU’s representational strategies evolve, transforming erstwhile and mute ‘natives’ into ostensible and voluble ‘neighbours’.
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成为当地人的邻居:殖民发展、政治独立和西萨摩亚的纪录片
摘要本文分析了1947年至1962年新西兰政府将萨摩亚作为联合国托管领土管理期间,新西兰国家电影局拍摄的三部纪录片。我认为,在那段时间里,这些电影展现了一种散漫和电影化的转变:从将萨摩亚描绘成一个“时间遗忘”的田园诗般的天堂,到萨摩亚在20世纪成为第一个前殖民的太平洋主权国家时的更现实的纪录片风格。虽然这些电影只是表面上与他们所描绘的人民和文化接触,忽略了许多可能与积极信息相冲突的内容,尽管它们在很大程度上没有与萨摩亚的传统习俗接触(这些都是客串而非客串的描述),但随着西萨摩亚越来越接近政治独立,将过去沉默的“本地人”转变为表面上健谈的“邻居”。
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Studies in Australasian Cinema FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-
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