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Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas

Edited By Alicia Izharuddin, Patrick F. Campos Copyright 2027

264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Focusing on the global and transnational nature of film, this landmark volume provides an overview of the study of cinemas and filmmaking practices from Southeast Asia, demonstrating the critical breadth and depth of this rich interdisciplinary field. Bringing together key themes and diverse methodologies that help illuminate Southeast Asian cinemas as a conceptual field, the book explores the... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction: Region as Method, Cinema as Practice: Conditions of Legibility

Alicia Izharuddin and Patrick F. Campos

Part I Figures and Genres of Desire: Gender, Stars, Archetypes

1. Masculine Eroticism and the Occlusion of Southeast Asia: Queering a Region

Bliss Cua Lim

2. Malaysian Independent Films in the World: Malay Femininity as the Point of Global Contact

Alicia Izharuddin

3. Women Protagonists and Iconic Stars in Popular Philippine Cinema: Screening the Filipina

Chrishandra Sebastiampillai

4. Archetypes, Gender, and Imagination in Early Cambodian Cinema

LinDa Saphan & Jessica Austin

Part II Methods of Attention: Sonic and Sensorial Politics

5. Music, Nostalgia, and the Burmese Socialist-Era Classic Thingyan Moe: You Broke My Heart on Mandalay Hill

Jane M. Ferguson

6. Western Music in the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia: Non-fiction Film as Ethnomusicological Reference

Sandeep Ray

7. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Political Field of Images: When Cinema Resonates

Noah Keone Viernes

Part III Spaces and Places of Dwelling: Homes, Terminals, Assemblies

8. Nostalgia and Urban Apartments in Two Films from Cambodia and Singapore: Tender Tenements

Tito Ramos Quiling, Jr.

9. Reflections on Technology, Distribution, Community, and Connection: The Mother of Invention

Tan Pin Pin

10. Infrastructure and Mobility in Singapore: Tan Pin Pin’s walk walk

Olivia Khoo

Part IV Platforms and Communities: Archive, Distribution, Exhibition

11. The Persistence of Liberatory Memory Work in Southeast Asian Cinema and Moving Image Practices

Adrian D. Mendizabal

12. Malaysian Indians and the Memories of Moviegoing

Agata Frymus

13. Indonesian YouTube Series and Films: Mediating Regional Stories and Local Filmmakers’ Practice

Ratna Erika M. Suwarno

14. The In-Visibility of Film Festival Research in Southeast Asia: The State of the Field and Possible Trajectories

Teck Fann Goh & Katrina Ross Tan

Part V Polities, Counter-Publics, and the Making of Visibility

15. Experimental Film and Video Activism in Indonesia: Peripheral Assembly

Veronika Kusumaryati

16. The Loneliness of the Inveterate Malaysian-Movie Watcher

Amir Muhammad

17. Varieties of Political Cinema in Myanmar: Frames of Resistance

Patrick F. Campos

Part VI (Trans)national Formations and Negotiation

18. In Conversation with Davy Chou: What’s Lost Is Being Found

Savunthara Seng

19. An Emerging Bruneian Cinema: A Historical and National Cinema Perspective

Yong Liu

20. Geographies of Labor, Exclusions, and In-Betweenness in Southeast Asia: Ways of the Sea

Darlene Machell de Leon Espeña

Editor(s)

Biography

Alicia Izharuddin is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema (2017)

Patrick F. Campos is a curator-programmer and Professor at the Film Institute of the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is the author of The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century (2016).

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