Anti-communist films sponsored by the US government in Singapore and Malaya : on the New York Sound Masters Inc

• Main Author: Hee, Wai Siam
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Cold War; Campaign of Truth; DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80154; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46275
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article examines anti-Communist films made by Hollywood in Cantonese and Malay in Singapore and Malaya in the Cold War context of the “Campaign of Truth.” In the early 1950s, the United State Information Agency, an arm of the State Department, secretly commissioned and funded New York Sound Mas...