Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium
Transcendence beyond Multiculturalism
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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.
About the Author:
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.
Press Reviews:
'Lee is well versed in theories of transnational and postcolonial studies and provides detailed and knowledgeable information about this period of filmmaking in Malaysia. I believe this book will make a valuable contribution to the studies of film in Southeast Asia.' -Olivia Khoo, Monash University, Australia
'The author comprehensively discusses the rise of Malaysian Digital Indies (MDI) in post-2000 Malaysia, the revival of form and aesthetics in comparison to mainstream films, the MDI's emergence in the Malaysian context, and finally the MDI's incorporation into the mainstream films.' -Nunna Prasad, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates
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