Celluloid Singapore: Cinema, Performance and the National

ISBN-13: 9781474402880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Edna Lim

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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