Alluring Monsters : : The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization / / Rosalind Galt.
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets gender norms and social hierarchies. The pontiana...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film and Culture Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Malay Language
- Introduction: On the Trail of the Pontianak
- 1. Popular Horror and the Anticolonial Imaginary
- 2. Troubling Gender with the Pontianak
- 3. Race, Religion, and Malay Identities
- 4. Who Owns the Kampung? Heritage, History, and Postcolonial Space
- 5. Animism as Form: A Pontianak Theory of the Forest
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- FILM AND CULTURE