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Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

Lim, David C. L.
Yamamoto, Hiroyuki

Paperback

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

Film StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415626188
ISBN13: 9780415626187
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 26 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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