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Celluloid Singapore : cinema, performance and the national /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lim, Edna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018].
Series:Traditions in world cinema.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Singapore > History.
Motion picture industry > Singapore > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.