Memory films and the politics of revisiting: on Amir Muhammad's films about the Communist Party of Malaya.

This article argues that Amir Muhammad's two films about the Community Party of Malaya—The Last CommunistandVillage People Radio Show—can be understood as “memory films”: films that search for, create, question, and function as memories, especially when they are no longer in place, or nowhere to be...

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Publicado en:Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 128 - 134
Autor principal: Wang, Chih-ming
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2015
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