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Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

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. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital. The wide range of subjects covered include documentaries as political interventions in Singapore; political film-makers’ collectives in the Philippines, and films about prostitution in Cambodia and patriotism in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Indonesia. The book analyses films from Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, across a broad range of productions – such as mainstream and independent features across genres (for example comedy, patriotic, political, historical genres) alongside documentary, classic and diasporic films.

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Series Title
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Call Number
791.43 FIL f
Publisher
: .,
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Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781136592478
Classification
791.43
Content Type
text
Media Type
computer
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online resource
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Subject(s)
Performing Arts / Film
History & Criticism
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umi
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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ca33ad8b-77a6-4893-8335-92bd1fb51f81
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