Southeast Asia on Screen : : From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998) / / ed. by Thomas Barker, Gaik Cheng Khoo, Mary Ainslie.

This collection examines Southeast Asia's cinematic development throughout the latter part of the 20th century, before the post-2000 revival and the advent of digital filmmaking.[-][-]Following the end of World War 2, after which many Southeast Asian nations gained their national independence,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Asian Visual Cultures ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Section 1. Independence and Post-World War II Filmmaking: Nation-building, Modernity and Golden Eras
  • Introduction: Independence and Post-World War II Filmmaking : Nation-building, Modernity and Golden Eras
  • 1. A Nation Imagined Differently. The Critical Impulse of 1950s Indonesian Cinema
  • 2. The 1950s Filipino Komiks-to-Film Adaptation during the Studio Era
  • 3. Pearl Tears on the Silver Screen. War Movies and Expanding Burmese Militarism in the Early Independence Years
  • 4. Gender, Nation and Spatial Mobility in On Top of the Wave, on Top of the Wind
  • 5. Spectacularity of Nationalism. War, Propaganda and Military in Indonesian Cinema during the New Order Era
  • Section 2. Key Directors
  • Introduction: Key Directors
  • 6. Two Auteurs in the Indonesian Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s : Sjuman Djaya and Teguh Karya
  • 7. Hussain Haniff and the Place of the Auteur in Popular Malay Cinema
  • 8. Ratana Pestonji and Santi Vina. Exploring the 'Master' of Thai Cinema during Thailand's 'American Era'
  • 9. Locating Mike de Leon in Philippine Cinema
  • Section 3. Popular Pleasures
  • Introduction: Popular Pleasures
  • 10. Nora Aunor vs Ferdinand Marcos. Popular Youth Films of 1970s Philippine Cinema
  • 11. Transnational Exploitation Cinema in Southeast Asia. The Cases of Indonesia and the Philippines
  • 12. Mapping Regional Ambivalence and Anxieties in They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong
  • 13. The Boonchu Comedy Series. Pre-1990s Thai Localism and Modernity
  • About the Authors
  • Index