Latent images: film in Singapore

Examines Singaporean cinema. The title investigates the past of local film production and its characteristics of local distribution and exhibition, the growing sophistication of the city’s audiences, and how people watched films here a generation ago as compared with the movie-going experience at present. The role of the infrastructure in the development of a vibrant indigenous film culture is also addressed; the Singapore International Film Festival, the Film Society, the emergence of film and media education, the need for film preservation and the impact of government economic and fiscal policies. This book is intended for film and media studies, film history and theory students.