Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema
Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041184560
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages254 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief.
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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief. Discover Singapore's preoccupations with space, Yasmin Ahmad's Malaysian soundscapes, and Indonesia's investment in genre. These undertheorized films from geopolitically situated cultures narrate colonial identity within a distinctively Southeast Asian story. Gerald Sim's immersive journey nurtures connections between narrative film, commercial video, art cinema, and experimental work with an abiding commitment to self-reflexive theorizing. The book culminates in a reflection on the ethics and politics of conducting knowledge work on world cinema. Sim navigates Singapore's love of maps with the work of Tom Conley and Gilles Deleuze, surveys the city-state's cartographic uncanny, before using the spatial inquisitions in filmmaker Tan Pin Pin's cinema of hiraeth to appreciate Singapore's territorial predispositions. The book then revisits a beloved Malaysian director's voice of modernity alongside Jean-Luc Nancy's phenomenologies of listening and globalization. Original readings of Ahmad's oeuvre dwell on the interplay between her ethnic cacophonies and imperfect subtitling. Finally, Sim focuses on the postcoloniality of Indonesia's Cold War alliance with the United States to contemplate the overhang of authoritarian stability within its contemporary cinema's generic recourse.
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Acknowledgments, Introduction: Expanding the Postcolonial Map, An Unfamiliar Postcoloniality, Touchstones in Postcolonial Film Studies: On Style and Practice, Strategies Old and New, Cold Wars and Methodological Debates, Chapter 1: Postcolonial Spatiality: Singapore Maps its Cinema, Aerial Maps, Affective Colonial Maps, The Persistence of Colonial Spatiality, Chapter 2: Reorienting Film History Spatially, Finding Singapore in the Impossibilities of Tan Pin Pin, The Vexed Images of Singapore's New Wave, Chapter 3: Postcolonial Cacophonies: Malaysia Senses the World, Nancian Soundscapes, Resonant Subjects, Postcolonial Globalism, Chapter 4: Postcolonial Myths: Indonesia Americanizes Stability, A Brief History of Sublation, American Influence, The Road to Reformasi, Conclusion: A Look Forward for Southeast Asian Film Studies, Theorizing Edwin, What Theory and Southeast Asian Cinema Mean to Each Other, Bibliography, Index
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