Dorothy: Thesis Outline
Topic
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.