Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Note on Naming and Transliteration xi
5. Preview 1
6. Chapter 1 Exposure and Development: The Making of a Burmese Dream Factory 19
7. Chapter 2 Gender Theater and the Silver Screen: Women and the Motion Picture Industry 39
8. Chapter 3 Sound Waves: Music for the Movies and the Advent of the Talkie 58
9. Chapter 4 Peacocks and Parrots: Anticolonial Nationalism Gets Its Wings 78
10. Chapter 5 Tender Celluloid among the Cactus? Burma’s Cinematic Cold War 95
11. Chapter 6 The Primitive and the Beautiful: The Ethnic Film Genre 114
12. Chapter 7 Last Tango in Rangoon: Burmese Borrowings and Reinventions of International Films 132
13. Chapter 8 The Burmese Way to Socialist Realism: Remaking Hollywood in the Ne Win Years 150
14. Chapter 9 Ethnic Conflict on the Cutting Room Floor: Socialism, Chauvinism, and Tracking Hidden Histories in a Banned Film 173
15. Chapter 10 Socialism in Stereo: A Musical Bridge to Myanmar Culture 195
16. Conclusion: The Muse in the Prison Celluloid 211
17. Notes 223
18. References 233
19. Index 251
20. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 269