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Tan，See Kam1 ; Fernando，Jeremy2
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| 2011 | |
| Source Publication | The Cinema of Small Nations |
| Pages | 127-143 |
| Abstract | [T]he idea of ‘national cinema’ has given way to ‘transnational film studies’ … [I]nstead of following the rush to abandon the national altogether, we [ask] what happens to the national in transnational film studies. We [call] for the final abandonment of the old national cinemas model, which assumed nation-states were stable and coherent and that films [of a particular nation-state] expressed singular national identity. (Berry and Farquhar 2006: 195) Introduction: Conflicting Nationalisms Singapore on screen testifies to the fact that this small nation has both benefited from, and paid the price for, its historical position as the premier port in South East Asia. As the gateway between ‘east’ and ‘west’ and even ‘north’ and ‘south’, the city-state has long been territory to and for the global traffic in people, ideas, images, cultures and capital, including film. Singapore cinema thus has simultaneously local, national and transnational dimensions, similar to the country's multiracial, multicultural, multi-religious and multi-linguistic environments. The inherent contradictions result in considerable complexity. In this chapter we limit our discussion to Singapore cinema of the last two decades or so, a period that coincides with this cinema's revitalisation. |
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| Language | 英语 |
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| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Affiliation | 1.University of Macau,,Macao 2.School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Nanyang Technological University,,Singapore |
| First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tan，See Kam,Fernando，Jeremy. Singapore,2011:127-143. |
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