Celluloid Singapore: Cinema, Performance and the National

This is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history - 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? Author Edna Lim argues that the films of these three periods collectively ...