Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia on screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis: 1945–1998.

These debates force you to notice this volume's reliance on national cinema as a framing device, and as a result, to the space that Indonesian, Philippine, and Thai cinemas occupy on its pages. It is the case with the introductory chapter of I Southeast Asia on screen i , in which co-editor Gaik Cheng Khoo's iteration of those film and intellectual histories is particularly cogent and replete with handy references. I conclude by returning to the idea that Southeast Asian film studies finds itself perched at an important juncture, between global and local, art cinema and popular film, new and old, national and transnational. [Extracted from the article]