Peter J Bloom

Datos Biográficos

ID145906
NOMBREPeter J Bloom
NOMBRESPeter J
APELLIDOBloom
FIRMABLOOM P J
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0003-1108-0379
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAS7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2003
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H1

  • Voicing the Malayan Emergency

    Peter J BloomARTICLEpositions asia critique2023Referencias: 11

    British colonial film and radio broadcasting initiatives are described as a foundational context for shaping the Malayan Emergency (1948–60). The development and deployment of counterinsurgency techniques become a means by which to wage war against what came to be identified as the Communist insurgency, previously trained and allied with Anglo-American forces against the Japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945. Key British figures associated with p…

  • J ohn W arne M onroe . Metropolitan Fetish

    Open AccessPeter J BloomARTICLEThe American Historical Review2021

  • The Biopolitics of Media Currency

    Open AccessPeter J BloomARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 13

    This article is an examination and extension of concepts that Achille Mbembe presented in his 2016 African Studies Association Abiola Lecture. In particular, "cognitive assemblages" are elaborated upon to consider how a shifting understanding of media has become part of a neoliberal digital media platform promoted by the Ghanaian state in association with Malaysia. Mbembe's invocation of the "injunction to decolonize" is also discussed through in…

  • Pre-cinema as paradigm and collection at the Getty Research Institute

    Peter J BloomARTICLEEarly Popular Visual Culture2020Referencias: 2

    Since the late 1990s I have developed an ongoing familiarity with the early media optical devices held at the Getty Research Institute (hereafter GRI) in Los Angeles.Most of these items are part of a significant collection acquired in 1993 by the Getty

  • Films for the Colonies

    Peter J BloomARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2020

  • Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

    Peter J Bloom, Peter Bloom et al.BOOKModernization As Spectacle in…2014

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  • Archives of Post-Independence Africa and its Diaspora

    Open AccessPeter J Bloom, Peter J Bloom Peter J Bloom et al.ARTICLECODESRIA Bulletin2013

  • Modernity and Danger

    Peter J Bloom, Kate SkinnerARTICLEGhana Studies2011Referencias: 13

    At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his predicament as an orphaned boy from an unnamed fishing village in the Gold Coast.[2][1] We learn that

  • Algeria cuts

    Peter J BloomARTICLEThe Journal of North African…2010

  • Modernity and Danger

    Peter J Bloom, Kate SkinnerARTICLEGhana Studies2009Citada por: 5

    GHANA STUDIES / Volumes 12–13 ISSN 1536-5514 / E-ISSN 2333-7168© 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System 121 MODERNITY AND DANGER The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit1 PETER J. BLOOM KATE SKINNER Introduction At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his …

  • French Colonial Documentary

    Peter J BloomBOOKFrench colonial documentary2008

  • Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema

    Open AccessPeter J BloomCHAPTERVirtual Voyages2006

  • Theorizing Senegalese migrant identities in the era of globalization

    Peter J BloomARTICLEEmergences Journal for the Study…2003Citada por: 1Referencias: 12