Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema - Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief. Discover Singapore-s preoccupations with space, Yasmin Ahmad-s Malaysian soundscapes, and Indonesia-s investment in genre. These undertheorized films from geopolitically situated cultures narrate colonial identity within a distinctively Southeast Asian story. Gerald Sim-s immersive journey nurtures connections between narrative film, commercial video, art cinema, and experimental work with an abiding commitment to self-reflexive theorizing. The book culminates in a reflection on the ethics and politics of conducting knowledge work on world cinema. Sim navigates Singapore-s love of maps with the work of Tom Conley and Gilles Deleuze, surveys the city-state-s cartographic uncanny, before using the spatial inquisitions in filmmaker Tan Pin Pin-s -cinema of hiraeth- to appreciate