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1 online resource |
| Series |
Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture Ser |
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Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.New Friend: A Sinophone Perspective on the First Locally Produced Film in Singapore and Malaya -- 2.Malayan Chinese Popular Memory: The Shaw Brothers Chinese-Language Films Directed by Wu Cun in Singapore -- 3.Making of Malaya: On the Malayan Film Unit's Cold War Moving Images -- 4.Singapore Story, Hollywood Version: US Government Anti-Communist Films Produced in Singapore and Malaya -- 5.Malayanised Chinese-Language Cinema: On Yi Shui's Cinematic Practice and Third World Film |
| Summary |
In a work that will force scholars to re-evaluate how they approach Sinophone studies, Wai-Siam Hee demonstrates that many of the major issues raised by contemporary Sinophone studies were already hotly debated in the popular culture surrounding Chinese-language films made in Singapore and Malaya during the Cold War. Despite the high political stakes, the feature films, propaganda films, newsreels, documentaries, newspaper articles, memoirs, and other published materials of the time dealt in sophisticated ways with issues some mistakenly believe are only modern concerns. In the process, the bo |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2020) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, Chinese -- Singapore -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures, Chinese -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- History -- 20th century
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Politics in motion pictures.
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Cold War.
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Motion pictures, Chinese -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures, Chinese
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Politics in motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Singapore -- History -- 20th century
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Malaya -- History -- Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080083
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| Subject |
Malaya
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Singapore
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789882204874 |
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9882204872 |
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