Description: Further DetailsTitle: Alluring MonstersCondition: NewSubtitle: The Pontianak and Cinemas of DecolonizationISBN-10: 0231201338EAN: 9780231201339ISBN: 9780231201339Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/16/2021Description: The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets gender norms and social hierarchies. The pontianak first appeared on screen in late colonial Singapore in a series of popular films that combine indigenous animism and transnational production with the cultural and political force of the horror genre.In Alluring Monsters, Rosalind Galt explores how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society. She argues that the figure speaks to a series of intersecting anxieties: about femininity and modernity, globalization and indigeneity, racial and national identities, the relationship of Islam to animism, and heritage and environmental destruction. The pontianak offers abundant feminist potential, but her disruptive gender politics also unsettle queer and feminist film theories by putting them in dialogue with Malay epistemologies. Reading the pontianak as a precolonial figure of disturbance within postcolonial cultures, Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization. From the horror films made by Cathay Keris and Shaw Studios in the 1950s and 1960s to contemporary film, television, art, and fiction in Malaysia and Singapore, the pontianak in all her media forms sheds light on how postcolonial identities are both developed and contested. In tracing the entanglements of Malay feminist animisms with postcolonial visual cultures, Alluring Monsters reveals how a “pontianak theory” can reshape understandings of anticolonial aesthetics and world cinema.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Rosalind GaltGenre: Films & TVBook Series: Film and Culture SeriesRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Alluring Monsters
Title: Alluring Monsters
Subtitle: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
ISBN-10: 0231201338
EAN: 9780231201339
ISBN: 9780231201339
Release Date: 11/16/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: Alluring Monsters : the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Subject Area: Performing Arts, History
Author: Rosalind Galt
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: Film and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
