Glimpses of Freedom - Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia

Klappentext Benjamin McKay was a writer, critic, and academic based in Kuala Lumpur. He had just completed his PhD research on 1950s and 1960s Malay cinema when, on July 18, 2010, he died of a cardiac arrest. As a lecturer in Film Studies at Monash University Malaysia, he was much loved by his students. As a critic, Benjamin wrote a monthly column for the Malaysian magazine Off The Edge and was a regular contributor to Kakiseni and the Southeast Asian cinema online journal Criticine. Zusammenfassung 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...

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• Authors: Adadol (EDT)/ Mckay Ingawanij, Adadol Mckay Ingawanij, May Adadol Mckay Ingawanij
• Assisted by: Adadol Ingawanij (Editor), May Adadol Ingawanij (Editor), Benjamin McKay (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780877277552
• ISBN: 978-0-87727-755-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cornell University Studies on; Cornell University Studies on
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous