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Beschreibung
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society, Rosalind Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization.
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society, Rosalind Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization.
Über den Autor
Rosalind Galt is professor of film studies at King's College London. Her previous Columbia University Press books are The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (2006) and Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (2011), and she is coauthor of Queer Cinema in the World (2016).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Note on Malay Language
Introduction: On the Trail of the Pontianak
1. Popular Horror and the Anticolonial Imaginary
2. Troubling Gender with the Pontianak
3. Race, Religion, and Malay Identities
4. Who Owns the Kampung? Heritage, History, and Postcolonial Space
5. Animism as Form: A Pontianak Theory of the Forest
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780231201339
ISBN-10: 0231201338
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Galt, Rosalind
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 232 x 154 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Rosalind Galt
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,448 kg
Artikel-ID: 119923948

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