Jul 2026· Studies in World Cinema· pp. 1-19· 0 citations· 20 references
Abstract
This essay sketches a pedagogical method for teaching regional cinema that resists the containment of “Southeast Asia” as a ready-made frame. The course begins in Mindanao, southern Philippines, from where the region is read as a set of relations: paths traced through state speech, sea-border life, and place-based testimony. Each section addresses four prompts – process, discourse, scale, and route – to examine how film renders a region thinkable.
From What Is Before
parses decree and memory through screen duration and festival legibility.
Thy Womb
and
The Mirror Never Lies
, alongside emergent works such as
Bohe
and
Unseen Soul,
mark the littoral as an everyday negotiation of language, livelihood, and governance.
Forbidden Memory
, in conversation with Papuan and Palestinian activist media, proposes witnessing as a method, with resonance figuring in for resemblance. The essay argues that the classroom offers a discipline of attention that renders the region a site of inquiry.
This article examines the changing cinematic functions of Christian imagery, religiously inflected space, and theological language in films about the Nanjing Massacre. Missionaries, Christian schools, hospitals, and relief workers form part of the historical archive on which these films draw, but cinema reorganizes tha...
This study conceptualizes contemporary Tamil cinema as a subaltern library, arguing that films can preserve, organize, and circulate lived experiences, cultural memories, and resistance narratives that are weakly represented in official historical records. Although scholarship has examined Tamil cinema through caste, i...
V. A., R. Subramani, M. Balasubramaniyan· Journal of Media & Mass Comm...· 0 citations
Although the history of Ottoman theaters is well researched, the changing perceptions of their audiences remain understudied. Drawing on music critics, memoirs, press accounts, and Ottoman archives, this essay flips James H. Johnson’s core question “Why did audiences become silent?” into “What happened when they did no...
Onur Engin· The Journal of musicology (S...· 0 citations
This paper examines Al Tayeb Salih’s Domat Wad Hamid as a literary exploration of memory, myth, and cultural identity within the postcolonial Sudanese context. By centering the sacred doum tree as a symbol of heritage and communal resilience, Salih dramatizes the villagers’ devotion to Sufi traditions and their resista...
Nafisa Mohmed Said, Iman Abbas Al Nour· Graduate Journal of Humaniti...· 0 citations
The article discusses Brazilian television drama as a privileged space
for symbolic elaboration, a historical document, and an archive of
collective memory, emphasizing its constitution in dialogue with the
processes of modernization, dictatorship, and re-democratization in Brazil.
Drawing on theoretical contributi...
Carla Patrícia da Silva Vilão· Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos...· 0 citations
