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Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema by Jane M. Ferguson; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema about?
In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in the colonial era, the parliamentary democracy period, and the Ne Win Socialist years. Author Jane M. Ferguson engages cinema as an interrogator of mainstream cultural values, providing political and cultural context to situate the films as artistic endeavors and capitalist products. Exploring how filmmakers eschewed colonial control and later selectively toed the ideological lines of the Burmese Way to Socialism, Sil ver Screens and Golden Dreams offers a serious yet enjoyable investigation of leisure during difficult times of transition and political upheaval. By skillfully blending historical and anthropological approaches, Ferguson shows how Burmese cinema presents a lively, unique take on the countrys social history. The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is f
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- Author
- Jane M. Ferguson;
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824897277
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
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