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Review of: Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai'i and Oceania, Maile Arvin (2019)
Durham: Duke University Press, 328 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 47800 633 6 (pbk), US$27.95

Mainstream narrative cinemas as theorized by David Bordwell privilege human characters or protagonists as the causal agents, whose desires and goals motivate the progression of the plot towards a satisfactory ending that resolves all dramatic conflicts. Bordwell delineates a logical, cause-effect pattern in the classical (Hollywood) narrative structure, which has come to dominate most of the mainstream cinemas' storytelling. In an attempt to indigenize narrative film theories for analysing Pacific cinemas, this article examines the manifestations of mana in film, an indigenous cultural concept that is deeply rooted in the Pacific's conceptualization of time–space (tā-vā) reality. Mana or the Force, as popularized by the Star Wars franchise, is a life-sustaining natural force and constant spiritual companion of the protagonist, that often serves as a key element in the narrative, and that not only effects causal changes but also provides the drive towards a resolution. The workings of mana in Pacific narratives also hinge upon the often multi-layered, circular tā-vā relationships, weaving generations of societal network through cultural performances and through reciprocal, nurturing connections between man and nature. I argue that mana functions like a Bordwellian causal agent in the narrative construction as illustrated in three recent Pacific narrative films – The Land Has Eyes (2004), The Orator (2011) and When the Man Went South (2014) – and that through the culture's prospective on the tā-vā 'continuity' one can make sense of the Pacific's storytelling mediated through the modernized form of cinema.

This article examines in Up the Yangtze and Last Train Home how Chinese Canadian filmmakers Yung Chang and Lixin Fan positioned themselves, framed the migrant issues and their subjects, and utilized two visual motifs in documenting China's migrant workers' labor and (im)mobility—the cruise ship and the train that transport both tourists and migrant workers. Chang and Fan blend participatory or interactive filmmaking with cinéma vérité cinematography and embed these two imposing motifs in the mise‐en‐scène to foreground the human subjects as marginalized, forgotten, and ignored masses against a highly territorialized economic landscape in contemporary China, an irony resulting from the so‐called "socialist market economy" that replaced the used‐to‐be egalitarian communist model. The author, while not intending to provide a full close reading of both films, bases the analysis of them on Bill Nichols' discussion on the modes of documentary and argues that the filmmakers' cinematography projects the train and the ship as means to mobilize human resources horizontally between the rural and the urban areas, but they failed thus far, within China's current economic structure and social hierarchy, to provide the migrant workers mobility to move upward and escape their stigmatized caste.

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