Author: Kenneth Chan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888208764
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses on LGBT politics, activism, and cultures in Singapore today. This book's arrival at a much more complicated and contradictory picture of the discursive Bugis Street, through the examination of Yonfan's film and a range of other cultural and literary texts, adds a new critical dimension to the ongoing historical, geographical, sociological, ethnographic, and artistic analyses of this controversial space.
Yonfan’s Bugis Street
Author: Kenneth Chan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888208764
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses on LGBT politics, activism, and cultures in Singapore today. This book's arrival at a much more complicated and contradictory picture of the discursive Bugis Street, through the examination of Yonfan's film and a range of other cultural and literary texts, adds a new critical dimension to the ongoing historical, geographical, sociological, ethnographic, and artistic analyses of this controversial space.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888208764
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses on LGBT politics, activism, and cultures in Singapore today. This book's arrival at a much more complicated and contradictory picture of the discursive Bugis Street, through the examination of Yonfan's film and a range of other cultural and literary texts, adds a new critical dimension to the ongoing historical, geographical, sociological, ethnographic, and artistic analyses of this controversial space.
The Motion Picture Guide
Author: Jay Robert Nash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Film Directors
Author: Michael Singer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Giant Robot
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alternative rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alternative rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Latent Images
Author: Jan Uhde
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The authors catalogue the country's film landscape from the early days of local film production through the end of 2007, and present new discoveries on the city's film history that throw fresh light on its earliest feature productions. The book's discussion of Singapore film production between 2000 and 2007 covers more than 50 new feature films, and also looks at Singapore cinema in its regional and wider contexts. The book also provides discussions of short film production and its impact on the development of filmmaking in the country, on censorship and film classification, and interviews with industry professionals and filmmakers. Expanded appendices provide quick reference to bio-filmographies of important Singapore filmmakers, statistics from the Singapore International Film Festival, and a full list of films produced in Singapore between 1927 and 2007.
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The authors catalogue the country's film landscape from the early days of local film production through the end of 2007, and present new discoveries on the city's film history that throw fresh light on its earliest feature productions. The book's discussion of Singapore film production between 2000 and 2007 covers more than 50 new feature films, and also looks at Singapore cinema in its regional and wider contexts. The book also provides discussions of short film production and its impact on the development of filmmaking in the country, on censorship and film classification, and interviews with industry professionals and filmmakers. Expanded appendices provide quick reference to bio-filmographies of important Singapore filmmakers, statistics from the Singapore International Film Festival, and a full list of films produced in Singapore between 1927 and 2007.
World Press Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The Advocate
Author:
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Category : Gay liberation movement
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Gay liberation movement
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Spectator
Author:
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Category : Film criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Film criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Time Out Film Guide
Author: John Pym
Publisher: Time Out Guides
ISBN: 9780140289473
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
From "TimeOut" magazine comes this ninth edition of its film guide that features stills and information on the films covered in the pages of the magazine.
Publisher: Time Out Guides
ISBN: 9780140289473
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
From "TimeOut" magazine comes this ninth edition of its film guide that features stills and information on the films covered in the pages of the magazine.
Asian Cinema
Author:
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Category : Asians in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asians in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description