Celluloid Singapore : cinema, performance and the national / Edna Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lim, Edna, author.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Singapore--History.

Motion picture industry--Singapore--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-5225-6

1-4744-4461-X

1-4744-3540-8

1-4744-0289-5

OCLC:

1065101700