Rock the house : nationalism and queer bodies in Singapore cinema

• Main Author: Zhang, Helaine Huiling
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Asian cinema
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15216
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nationalism seeks to control order by ensuring what seems to be a “clear” regulating of its citizen’s heterosexuality. What happens when queerness intrude into the nationalistic formula that controls sexuality? If the national identity of a population is constructed to appear as the “house” of the n...