Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. New Friend: A Sinophone Perspective on the First Locally Produced Film in Singapore and Malaya 30
7. 2. Malayan Chinese Popular Memory: The Shaw Brothers Chinese-Language Films Directed by Wu Cun in Singapore 58
8. 3. The Making of Malaya: On the Malayan Film Unit’s Cold War Moving Images 90
9. 4. A Singapore Story, Hollywood Version: US Government Anti-Communist Films Produced in Singapore and Malaya 112
10. 5. Malayanised Chinese-Language Cinema: On Yi Shui’s Cinematic Practice and Third World Film 138
11. Afterword 165
12. Appendix: Filmography of Early Mandarin and Chinese Topolects Singapore-Malayan Cinema (1927–1965) 179
13. List of Chinese Names and Terms 194
14. References 203
15. Index 229