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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2024
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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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