Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia

Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia

This essay examines how Hollywood was affected by the successful anticommunism of Britain and its local allies in Malaya and Singapore, victories that unfolded alongside Vietnam’s mounting crisis in the early 1960s. It shows that American movies of this era which portrayed the intertwining of US and...

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Main Author: NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing)
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
Subjects:
Vietnam War
Cold War
Malaya
Singapore
Domino Theory
colonialism
Asian Studies
Film and Media Studies
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3927
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5185/viewcontent/Ngoei_Silver_Screen_Reversals_of_the_Domino_Theory_author_final_copy.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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