Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention
David C. L. Lim (editor), Hiroyuki Yamamoto (editor)
In the past decade, having long been under the shadow of the more established East Asian cinemas, film in Southeast Asia has emerged as an exciting new field of enquiry for scholars across disciplines. There has been a profusion of new scholarly works of diffused foci produced in the same period, mostly dispersed across wide-ranging journals, volumes, the internet and other media sources. Although the new input has helped to shed some light on the field, David Hanan’s observation in 2001 that little has been published in English about film in Southeast Asia remains as true in essence today as it was ten years ago. There remain large gaps in knowledge on film in the region. Since the publication of Hanan’s now-classic but out-of-print edited volume, Film in South East Asia: Views from the Region (2001), no other book on film in the region had been published, until this volume.1
This book studies film but it does not narrow the enquiry to a film type or a particular genre such as fictional narrative, documentary or independent but engages instead with a broad range of productions. Aside from mainstream and independent features across genres (comedy, musical comedy, political, patriotic, national, historical, etc.), it examines also documentary, classic and diasporic films, as well as telemovies...
년:
2011
판:
1
출판사:
Routledge
언어:
english
페이지:
226
ISBN 10:
0415617634
ISBN 13:
9780415617635
시리즈:
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
파일:
EPUB, 1.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011