1st Edition
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability
By Gerald Sim
Copyright 2020
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief. Discover Singapore's preoccupations with space, Yasmin Ahmad's Malaysian soundscapes, and Indonesia's investment in genre. These undertheorized films from geopolitically situated cultures... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction: Expanding the Postcolonial Map, An Unfamiliar Postcoloniality, Touchstones in Postcolonial Film Studies: On Style and Practice, Strategies Old and New, Cold Wars and Methodological Debates, Chapter 1: Postcolonial Spatiality: Singapore Maps its Cinema, Aerial Maps, Affective Colonial Maps, The Persistence of Colonial Spatiality, Chapter 2: Reorienting Film History Spatially, Finding Singapore in the Impossibilities of Tan Pin Pin, The Vexed Images of Singapore's New Wave, Chapter 3: Postcolonial Cacophonies: Malaysia Senses the World, Nancian Soundscapes, Resonant Subjects, Postcolonial Globalism, Chapter 4: Postcolonial Myths: Indonesia Americanizes Stability, A Brief History of Sublation, American Influence, The Road to Reformasi, Conclusion: A Look Forward for Southeast Asian Film Studies, Theorizing Edwin, What Theory and Southeast Asian Cinema Mean to Each Other, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Gerald Sim is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University, the author of The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema (2014), and Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia in 2016-2017.
