Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia

Book Overview

Since the late 1990s, a vivid new sphere of cinematic practice in Southeast Asia has emerged and been identified as independent. What exactly does this term mean in relation to the way films and videos are made, and the way they look? How do issues of festival circulation, piracy, technology, state and institutional power, and spectatorship apply to practices of independent cinema throughout the diverse region? The authors who speak in this volume--contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877277559
• ISBN13: 9780877277552
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher