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)
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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
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spelling	sg-smu-ink.soss_research-51852024-04-04T09:25:51Z Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing) 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 British experiences in 1950s Malaya and 1940s Singapore conveyed an uneasy yet clear optimism about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. 2024-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Vietnam War Cold War Malaya Singapore Domino Theory colonialism Asian Studies Film and Media Studies
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description	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 British experiences in 1950s Malaya and 1940s Singapore conveyed an uneasy yet clear optimism about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
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author	NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing)
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title	Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia
title_short	Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia
title_full	Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia
title_fullStr	Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia
title_full_unstemmed	Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia
title_sort	silver screen reversals of the domino theory: american cold war movies and the re-imagination of british experiences in southeast asia
publisher	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate	2024
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Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia

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