Imagined communities, imagined worlds: Independent film from South East Asia in the global mediascape

Baumgärtel, Tilman

doi:10.1386/trac.2.1.57_1

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“…The industry also witnessed the new wave of filmmaking in the early 2000s, as groups of independent and art house filmmakers begin to emerge in the Malaysian film scene. Among others, independent filmmakers like Yasmin Ahmad, Ho Yuhang, Amir Muhammad, Deepak Kumaran Menon, and James Lee (Khoo, 2007;Hassan, 2013) managed to attract attention at the international art house festival for narratives that simultaneously challenged issues and conveyed social criticisms in a rich and diverse storytelling (Baumgärtel, 2011) compared to the popular films available in the market.…”

Section: The Malay(sian) New Wave Of Filmmakermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender And Religion In Malaysian Cinema: A Study On Yasmin Ahmad’s Films

Rahman¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Section: The Malay(sian) New Wave Of Filmmakermentioning

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Gender And Religion In Malaysian Cinema: A Study On Yasmin Ahmad’s Films

Rahman¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Mass media shared the idea among a nations and its people. Mass media providing their audience with narratives that unfold in specific places, they give them a sense of community, as well as a sense of shared history and identity (Baumgartel, 2011). The common experience build among people in society in the end will forge the notion of national identity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Independent film is a replacement of novels or newspaper due to Anderson concept of media catalyst in forming the nation members' sense of national identity (Baumgartel, 2011). He used the concept of Anderson imagined community to explained the territory elimination in the process of national identity building among the international audience.…”

Section: Imagined Communities National Identities and Filmmentioning

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Imagined Communities and the Construction of National Identity

Putri¹,

Nasruddin²,

Wahab³

2018

IJARBSS

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Nationalism and nation are the important concept in construct the term of national identity. Benedict Anderson claims that nation as such is always imagined communities that give their members/citizens a sense of identity and belonging. Anderson believes that community actively builds the concept of nation, that a nation is a socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group. The sense of society on national identity is imagined through communities same experience. In Anderson perspective, the shared experience can be achieves through the role of mass media. Postmodern and globalization era, was facilitates the new form of media, that increasingly the possibility of society in experiencing the same idea. The argument of media as catalyst in form the society commonness, said, in other word, that mass media has important role in form the notion of national identity. Mass media presence helped people perceive themselves as homogeneous body. Mass media shared the idea among a nations and its people. Anderson have identified that mass media is a key instrument in the social construction of imagined communities. Media representations are integral to the social construction of national identities. However, mass media also eliminates the geographical boundaries among community. The form of national identity will influence either by internal forces and external forces. Moreover, within the condition, new narratives can change people's perceptions of what constitutes their national identity.

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“…This adds to the paranoia of the state, resulting in a further tightening of security measures on the independent film industry. Thus, it is unsurprising that the Malaysian independent film industry has become synonymous with labels such as opposition, left-wing, alternative and activist (Baumgärtel, 2012; Van der Heide, 2002). 2…”

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“… 9. For example, Amir Muhammad kept a blog to gather information for his film Malaysian Gods (2009) – see Baumgärtel (2012). Resulting from the state’s attempt to transform the country to First World status (Mohamed, 1993), pro-high technology ICT projects (under the Vision 2020 banner) have implicated the independent industry in potentially positive ways.…”

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Rhizomatic behaviours in social media: V-logging and the independent film industry in Malaysia

Lim

2013

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Amidst highly ambiguous policies governing the creative industry in Malaysia, discourses concerning censorship, funding and distribution continue to implicate popular content within the independent film industry. While independent filmmakers are increasingly looking to the possibilities of online distribution of their work, there is a new generation of filmmakers or v-loggers who are actively using social media to confront a range of national, social and cultural issues within their texts. By drawing upon examples of independent film productions and v-logs made popular through online portals ranging from YouTube to more activist-centred sites, this article considers the ways in which creative products that would have been banned or removed from local screens by the state have in fact garnered millions of online views, and are discussed, referenced and widely shared by the public via social networking platforms. Through the rhizomatic capacities of v-logging, I argue that the emergence of new cultural distribution strategies challenges us to rethink notions of social practice and action. In addition to understanding social media as an alternative platform for public discourse in Malaysia, there is a further need to engage with the idea of the ‘prosumer’, and to consider the changing dynamics of the independent film industry.

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Imagined communities, imagined worlds: Independent film from South East Asia in the global mediascape

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Gender And Religion In Malaysian Cinema: A Study On Yasmin Ahmad’s Films

Gender And Religion In Malaysian Cinema: A Study On Yasmin Ahmad’s Films

Imagined Communities and the Construction of National Identity

Rhizomatic behaviours in social media: V-logging and the independent film industry in Malaysia

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