This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries
of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which
films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires
signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also
serves as a site of contestations between social and political
agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings,
messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the
book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the
societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons
for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and
counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and
the extent to which these interventions are connected to global
flows of culture and capital.
The wide range of subjects covered include documentaries as
political interventions in Singapore; political film-makers?
collectives in the Philippines, and films about prostitution in
Cambodia and patriotism in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Indonesia.
The book analyses films from Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines,
across a broad range of productions ? such as mainstream and
independent features across genres (for example comedy, patriotic,
political, historical genres) alongside documentary, classic and
diasporic films.
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