Table of Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Reclaiming Adat

2 Malay Myth and Changing Attitudes Towards Nationalism: The Hang Tuah/Hang Jebat Debate

3 DissemiNation of Malay/sia

4 Malay/sian Films: Cinema of Denial

5 Representations of the Modern Malay Woman of the 1990s

6 What Is It To Be A Man? Violence in the Time of Modernity

Appendix A: Cultural Representations of Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat

Appendix B: Primary Filmography

Appendix C: Secondary Filmography

Notes

References

Index

Promotional Information

Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat, or Malay custom, to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization.

About the Author

Khoo Gaik Cheng is associate lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, Australian National University in Canberra.

Reviews

One of the most cogent analyses I have read on the cinema of a Southeast Asian country. Well-versed in both literary theory and film theory, what Khoo has accomplished is amazing.
*John A. Lent, author of Animation in Asia and the Pacific*