Celluloid Singapore : : Cinema, Performance and the National / / Edna Lim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Lim, Edna,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinemaCelluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore’s fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards. Set against the context of Singapore’s own trajectory of development, the book poses two central questions: how can the films of each period be considered ‘Singapore’ films, and how is this cinema specifically national? The book argues that the films of these three periods collectively constitute a national cinema through different performances of Singapore, offering a critical framework for understanding this cinema and its history in relation to the development of the country and the national.Key FeaturesThe first full length, critical study of Singapore cinemaIncludes case studies of films from the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwardsConsiders Singapore's cinema history and relationship with the national, building on developments in transnational cinema studies

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Traditions in World Cinema -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Merdeka!: Merger, Separation and a Transnational Golden Age -- 3. Influence, Hybridity and How the Past is a Foreign Country -- 4. Nation-building, a Nun and a Bionic Boy -- 5. Not so Foreign: the Case of Saint Jack -- 6. One People, One Nation, One Singapore -- 7. Revival Cinema: ‘Other’ Singaporeans in (An)other Singapore -- 8. Singapore Cinema in Singapore -- Works Cited -- Index