1st Edition
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention
Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction: Southeast Asian Film as a Site of Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention - David C. L. Lim 2. From Contested Histories to Ethnic Tourism: Cinematic Representations of Shans and Shanland on the Burmese Silver Screen - Jane M. Ferguson 3. Toward a Laotian Independent Cinema? - Panivong Norindr 4. Screening the Crisis of Monetary Masculinity in Rithy Panh’s One Night After the War and Burnt Theater - Boreth Ly 5. When Memories Collide: Revisiting War in Vietnam and the Diaspora - Vo Hong Chuong-Dai 6. Malay(sian) Patriotic Films as Racial Crisis and Intervention - David C.L. Lim 7. ‘Our People’: Telemovies, Bangsa and Nationalism 3.0 in Sabah, Malaysia - Hiroyuki Yamamoto 8. The Hero in Passage: The Chinese and the Activist Youth in Riri Riza’s Gie - Abidin Kusno 9. Alternative Vision in Neoliberal Singapore: Memories, Places, and Voices in the Films of Tan Pin Pin - Kenneth Paul Tan 10. Documentary Filmmaking, Civil Activism, and the New Media in Singapore: The Case of Martyn See as Citizen Journalist - Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi 11. Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and People’s Struggle in the Philippines - Rolando B. Tolentino 12. Nostalgic Parodies and Migrant Ironies in Two Thai Comedy Films - Pattana Kitiarsa
Biography
David C. L. Lim is Senior Lecturer at the Open University Malaysia, where he manages and teaches courses in Literary and Cultural Studies.
Hiroyuki Yamamoto is Associate Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
