Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimental work. The book discovers instances of postcoloniality that manifest stylistically through Singapore’s preoccupations with space, the importance of sound to Malay culture, and the Indonesian investment in genre.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- 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
- 1. Postcolonial Spatiality
- Singapore Maps its Cinema
- Aerial Maps
- Affective Colonial Maps
- The Persistence of Colonial Spatiality
- 2. Reorienting Film History Spatially
- Finding Singapore in The Impossibilities of Tan Pin Pin
- The Vexed Images of Singapore’s New Wave
- 3. Postcolonial Cacophonies
- Malaysia Senses the World
- Nancian Soundscapes
- Resonant Subjects
- Postcolonial Globalism
- 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
- List of Illustrations
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