Dorothy: Thesis Outline

Main argument

How to explore the idea of colonial archive with film/moving image?

Introduction

Background

Before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, most of the sensitive government files related to the colonial rule were being shipped to United Kingdom. Under the twenty-year rule (or thirty-year rule before the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010), most of these files are being released for public access in National Archives in London. This thesis would look at the political and personal aspects of the archives, as well as possible ways to explore these aspects through moving image and film.

Body

Visual Representation of archival material in films/moving image works

In form of tactile material

One approach to archival material in film and moving image works would be showing the object itself. Besides, it can be as well human relations with the objects, an example would be "[Alain] Resnais's interest in touch and image of hands and tactile contact" (Wilson 8).