Celluloid Singapore : Cinema, Performance and the National (Traditions in World Cinema)

Lim, Edna

Edinburgh University Press（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474452250
• DDC分類 791.43095957

Full Description

Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards. Set against the context of Singapore's own trajectory of development, the book poses two central questions: how can the films of each period be considered 'Singapore' films, and how is this cinema specifically national? The book argues that the films of these three periods collectively constitute a national cinema through different performances of Singapore, offering a critical framework for understanding this cinema and its history in relation to the development of the country and the national.

Contents

Acknowledgments Figures 1. Introduction 2. Merdeka!: Merger, separation and a transnational golden age 3. Influence, hybridity and how the past is a foreign country 4. Nation-building, a nun and a bionic boy 5. Not so foreign: the case of Saint Jack 6. One People, One Nation, One Singapore 7. Revival cinema: 'other' Singaporeans in (an)other Singapore 8. Singapore cinema in Singapore