Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2024
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Vietnam War, Cold War, Malaya, Singapore, Domino Theory, colonialism
Discipline
Asian Studies | Film and Media Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
Editor
Sangjoon Lee & Darlene Espena
First Page
167
Last Page
183
ISBN
9789463727273
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
City or Country
Amsterdam
Citation
NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing). (2024). Silver screen reversals of the Domino Theory: American Cold War movies and the re-Imagination of British experiences in Southeast Asia. In Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas (pp. 167-183). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3927
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