Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium: Transcendence beyond Multiculturalism

by Adrian Yuen Beng Lee

Overview

A pioneering and comprehensive study of recent Malaysian cinema.

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analyzing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the “Malaysian Digital Indies” have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers and provides a clear picture of the interactions between commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also illustrates how the Malaysian Digital Indies functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Islamisation.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789888528523
Publisher:	Hong Kong University Press
Publication date:	12/02/2022
Series:	Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Adrian Yuen Beng Lee is a senior lecturer in the Department of Film and Performing Arts at Sunway University in Malaysia. He is coeditor of Media and Elections:Democratic Transition in Malaysia.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Malaysian Digital Indies and a Cinema beyond Multiculturalism: New Forms, Aesthetics, and Genres in post-2000 Malaysian Cinema
1. The Malaysian Digital Indies (MDI): Transnational Malaysian Cinema, Problematising the National
2. The Malaysian Digital Indies: A Digital Independent Transnational Cinema
3. ‘Beyond Multiculturalism’: The Malaysian Postethnic Cosmopolitan Cinema
4. ‘The Malaysian Decade of Horror’: The Malaysian Horror Renaissance
5. Conclusion: Towards the Fourth Phase of Malaysian Cinema
Filmography: Malaysian Films
Filmography: Non-Malaysian Films
Appendix I: Database for the Malaysian Digital Indies, 2000–2011
Appendix II: Database for Commercial Mainstream Films in Post-2000 Malaysian Cinema, 2000–2011
Appendix III: Database for Horror Films in Post-2000 Malaysian Cinema, 2000–2011
References
Index