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Pacific Islands PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN FILM AND VIDEO: AN OVERVIEW
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The indigenous peoples from the islands that comprise the Pacific – Polynesia,
Melanesia, and Micronesia – passed down their traditions from one generation
to another orally. With the advent of European contact and subsequent colonization,
other kinds of media such as books, newspapers, and radio became important media
for communication. The latecomer to this scene is the use of video and film
for storytelling. The reasons for this late arrival are many, some of which
include the suppression of indigenous stories by Christianity, the creative,
financial, and technological demands of filmmaking, the focus by indigenous
communities on survival under colonialism rather than creativity (until the
emergence of independence movements and cultural assertion in the 1960s), and
the relatively small populations that make up specific cultures... Read Full Article |
