The Subaltern voice against meritocracy in Singapore’s contemporary films

• Main Author: Tan, Zhi Kai
• Other Authors: Wee Wan-Ling, Christopher Justin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70250
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the years of contemporary Singapore films, Singaporean filmmakers have been trying to make sense of the rapidly developing world which they live in. These films by Jack Neo, Royston Tan, Jasmine Ng and Kelvin Tong, are usually set in Singapore, during the 1980s or 1990s, with narratives surroundi...