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.
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).
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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
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
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