Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation.

Auteur

David C. L. Lim is Senior Lecturer at the Open University Malaysia, where he manages and teaches courses in Literary and Cultural Studies.

Hiroyuki Yamamoto is Associate Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Southeast Asian Film as a Site of Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention 2. From Contested Histories to Ethnic Tourism: Cinematic Representations of Shans and Shanland on the Burmese Silver Screen 3. Toward a Laotian Independent Cinema?
   4. Screening the Crisis of Monetary Masculinity in Rithy Panh's One Night After the War and Burnt Theater
      5. When Memories Collide: Revisiting War in Vietnam and the Diaspora 6. Malay(sian) Patriotic Films as Racial Crisis and Intervention 7. 'Our People': Telemovies, Bangsa and Nationalism 3.0 in Sabah, Malaysia 8. The Hero in Passage: The Chinese and the Activist Youth in Riri Riza's Gie
         9. Alternative Vision in Neoliberal Singapore: Memories, Places, and Voices in the Films of Tan Pin Pin
   10. Documentary Filmmaking, Civil Activism, and the New Media in Singapore: The Case of Martyn See as Citizen Journalist 11. Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and People's Struggle in the Philippines 12. Nostalgic Parodies and Migrant Ironies in Two Thai Comedy Films