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