Ah boys to men : Asian values, shared values and the dissemination of state-sanctioned paradigms

• Main Author: Chong, Lian Bing
• Other Authors: Ngoei Wen-Qing
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73651
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the recent history of films centred on National Service (NS) in Singapore and explore manners in which state-sanctioned beliefs and values have embedded themselves within these cultural documents. I argue that in films centred on NS, the Singapore nation has continued to be imagi...