The Malayan Emergency in Film, Literature and Art

Jonathan Driskell is Lecturer of Film, Television and Screen Studies at Monash University, Malaysia, and is the author of two books Marcel Carne (2012) and The French Screen Goddess (2015). He is also the editor of Film Stardom in Southeast Asia (2022) and has written a number of articles and book chapters. Marek W. Rutkowski is an independent historian specializing in the Cold War in Asia. His research interest include the history of the Vietnam War, middle power diplomacy and the Soviet Bloc’s developmental initiatives in Asia. Andrew Ng Hock Soon is Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Monash University, Malaysia. His research includes horror and the Gothic, postcolonial literature and literary and film aesthetics. He is the author or editor of six books.

Introduction: Representing the Malayan Emergency in Film and Literature, Jonathan Driskell, Marek Rutkowski and Andrew Hock Soon Ng (Monash University, Malaysia)
Part I: The Emergency during the Emergency: Filmic and Literary Representations
1. ‘Winning Hearts and Minds’: The Documentary Approach in the Films of the Malayan Film Unit, Hassan Abd. Muthalib (independent scholar)
2. The British Reception of Two 1950s Films on the Malayan Emergency, Jon Cowans (Rutgers University, USA)
3. Representing the Emergency to Domestic UK Audiences: The Planter’s Wife (1952) and Conflict of Wings (1954), Lawrence Napper (King’s College London, UK)
4. The Emergency through Independent Malaysian Films, Rosalind Galt, (King’s College London, UK)
5. 1956 Representations of the Malayan Emergency: Reading Han Suyin, Mary McMinnies and Anthony Burgess, Anne Wetherilt (Open University, UK)
Part II: In retrospect: looking back at the Malayan Emergency
6. Youth and the Malayan Emergency: Generational Tensions and Ideological Dissonances in British War Films of the 1950s and 1960s, Kevin Flanagan (George Mason University, USA)
7. The Malayan Emergency in Malaysian Cinema: Jins Shamsuddin’s Bukit Kepong (1981), Jonathan Driskell (Monash University, Malaysia)
8. [Re]Representing the Batang Kali Massacre, Chrishandra Sebastiampillai (Monash University, Malaysia)
9. The Underground War Novel ‘Hunger’, Yingxin Show (Australian National University, Australia)
10. The Occlusion of the Malayan Emergency in Beth Yahp's The Crocodile Fury (1992) and Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists (2020), Eugene Kee Hong Chua (Monash University, Malaysia)
11. To Singapore and Malaysia with Love: The Artistic Legacies of the Malayan Emergency, Sim Chi Yin (King’s College London, UK)
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