Celluloid Singapore: Cinema, Performance and the National

By Edna Lim

Book Overview

Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards. Set against the context of Singapore's own trajectory of development, the book poses two central questions: how can the films of each period be considered 'Singapore' films, and how is this cinema specifically national? The book argues that the films of these three periods collectively constitute a national cinema through different performances of Singapore, offering a critical framework for understanding this cinema and its history in relation to the development of the country and the national.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474452256
• ISBN13: 9781474452250
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"