Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

Scholars of Southeast Asian art and culture examine recent cinema in the region, considering a broad range of types, including mainstream, independent, documentary, classic, and diasporic. Among the topics are cinematic representations of Shans and Shanland on the Burmese silver screen, screening the crisis of monetary masculinity in Tithy Pahn's One Night After the War and Burnt Theater, Malay(sian) patriotic films as racial crisis and intervention, the Chinese and the activist youth in Riri Riza's Gie, alternative vision in neoliberal Singapore, and nostalgic parodies and migrant ironies in two Thai comedy films. The 12 essays are from a 2009 symposium in Kyoto, Japan. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)