Cultures at War : : The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Tony Day, Maya H. T. Liem.

The Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by the contest between global superpowers. The essays in this book offer the most detailed and probing examination to date of the cultural dimension of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. Sou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Cultures at War in Cold War Southeast Asia: An Introduction
  • Filming Philippine Modernity during the Cold War: The Case of Lamberto Avellana
  • Modern Drama, Politics, and the Postcolonial Aesthetics of Left-Nationalism in North Sumatra: The Forgotten Theater of Indonesia's Lekra, 1955-65
  • Saigonese Art during the War: Modernity versus Ideology
  • Cold War Rhetoric and the Body: Physical Cultures in Early Socialist Laos
  • Still Stuck in the Mud: Imagining World Literature during the Cold War in Indonesia and Vietnam
  • Raising Xenophobic Socialism against a Communist Threat: Re-reading the Lines of an Army Propaganda Magazine in 1950s Burma
  • The Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha's Insi thorng and the Hybridization of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema
  • Festival Politics: Singapore's 1963 South-East Asia Cultural Festival
  • Filling in the Gaps of History: Independent Documentaries Re-Present the Malayan Left
  • Recalling and Representing Cold War Conflict and its Aftermath in Contemporary Indonesian Film and Theatre
  • Contributors