Celluloid Singapore : Cinema, Performance and the National, Hardcover by Lim, Edna, ISBN 1474402887, ISBN-13 9781474402880, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards. Set against the context of Singapore's own trajectory of development,
th poses two central questions: how can the films of each period be considered 'Singapore' films, and how is this cinema specifically national? Th argues that the films of these three periods collectively constitute a national cinema through different performances of Singapore, offering
a critical framework for understanding this cinema and its history in relation to the development of the country and the national.