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- Book Title
- Alluring Monsters
- Publication Name
- Alluring Monsters : the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
- Title
- Alluring Monsters
- Subtitle
- The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231201338
- EAN
- 9780231201339
- ISBN
- 9780231201339
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Release Date
- 16/11/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Series
- Film and Culture Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 15.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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The pontianak is a powerful figure in Malay animism, a female vampire who queers gender norms and upsets social hierarchies. Rosalind Galt explores how and why the pontianak reemerged in postcolonial Southeast Asia, from 1950s horror films to contemporary media, revealing the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization. Alluring Monsters proposes that a "pontianak theory" can reframe anticolonial aesthetics and world cinema. Book jacket.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231201338
ISBN-13
9780231201339
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8050034020
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Alluring Monsters : the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Series
Film and Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.S8g35 2021
Reviews
A history lesson on this understudied cinematic culture and also a nuanced theoretical study that demonstrates the author's knowledge of Malay cinema and contemporary cultural and cinematic theory. Though Galt centers on Malay cinema, the study will be invaluable for those interested in the horror genre and cinema in non-Western nations in general., Alluring Monsters is an excellent study of the role of the ubiquitous pontianak in the Malay cinema located in Malaysia and Singapore during the cultural processes of the decolonization of both countries. Galt's scholarship is impressive in its breadth and depth, contributing to our understanding of why we must take the monstrous figure of the pontianak seriously., Galt offers a rich and vivid history of the pontianak's relevance to questions of race, gender, and Islam in the context of decolonization in the Malay peninsula. This book's entwinement of local historiography with theorizations of the global comprises its bold and welcome intervention., Trenchantly argued and eminently readable, Alluring Monsters will be of interest to anyone interested in feminist film criticism, the horror film, histories of world cinemas, and indeed, history as such., Galt offers new insights for understanding decolonisation discourses in which knowledge categories and identity are questioned. Indeed, this book opens up new ways to study other mythical horror figures that put Western rationalisation at stake., Alluring Monsters is an insightful and sophisticated piece of work that illuminates how a popular film subgenre that features the most iconic hantu in the region facilitates a theoretical debate about world cinema. In addition, it serves as a conduit for multiple meanings and discourses that reflect colonial legacies and ideologies that continue to haunt postcolonial Malaysian and Singaporean societies., [A] very rich decolonial book . . . what makes the book so fascinating and unique is its fertile dalliance with contemporary scholarship in other fields like ecocinema and new animisms, which are gaining some momentum in Southeast Asian cinema. Thus, while providing a rich foundation for students of Southeast Asian cinema, the book also carries a broader appeal beyond Asian studies., Alluring Monsters is indispensable reading for those interested in how media, folklore, and anticolonial feminism might be explored together. The pontianak, a female ghost of childbirth with queer feminist appeal, is a fascinating fusion of pre-Islamic animism and postindependence aspirations; her influence on transnational vampire lore is decisive but little known. Galt's deep dive into the political potential of the pontianak moves from colonial misconstruals of indigenous culture to late-colonial studio films and the decolonizing impulses of Malaysian and Singaporean popular cinemas. Across such multiethnic, intercultural flows, Galt explores issues of racialization, ethnonationalism, and environmentalism via an archivally rich exploration of supernatural horror in Southeast Asian and world cinemas., Alluring Monsters delivers on all of its ambitious promises. Rosalind Galt elegantly balances the local and the global, the historical and the theoretical, the industrial and the aesthetic, the cultural and the political, the filmic and the related arts. The result is an important new model for imagining world cinema., Superlative scholarship. . .[Galt's] research is wide-ranging and thorough, providing a groundbreaking understanding of a popular culture icon through the lens of decolonization., The first of its kind and a book like no other, Alluring Monster s brings Southeast Asian cinema and postcoloniality into productive tension through the much-beloved yet much-feared figure of the pontianak. Rosalind Galt has created thrilling new paths for thinking about postcolonial cinema, animism, feminism, queer/trans subjectivities, and decolonial politics.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2021
Topic
Asia / Southeast Asia, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2021-004547
Dewey Decimal
791.43675
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Performing Arts
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