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: The Malayan Emergency in Cultural Memory - Film, Literature, and Art as Historical Other, Jonathan Driskell, Marek Rutkowski and Andrew Hock Soon Ng (Monash University, Malaysia)Part I: The Emergency during the Emergency: Filmic and Literary Representations1. The Melodrama of Race in Emergency-era Singapore Cinema, Rosalind Galt, (King's College London, UK)2. Cinematic Representation of the Malayan Emergency in the Films of the Malayan Film Unit, Hassan Abd. Muthalib (Independent Scholar) 3. The British Reception of Two 1950s Films on the Malayan Emergency, Jon Cowans (Rutgers University, USA) 4. Representations of the Malayan Emergency: Reading Han Suyin, Mary McMinnies and Anthony Burgess, Anne Wetherilt (Open University, UK) 5. Writing from the Other Side: Partisan Literature as Palimpsest of the Malayan Emergency and the Cold War', Yingxin Show (Australian National University, Australia) Part II: In Retrospect: Looking Back at the Malayan Emergency6. Age and Experience in British Films about the Malayan Emergency, Kevin Flanagan (George Mason University, USA)7. Bukit Kepong: The Emergency in Mainstream Malaysian Cinema, Jonathan Driskell (Monash University, Malaysia) 8. [Re]Representing the Batang Kali Massacre, Chrishandra Sebastiampillai (Monash University, Malaysia) 9. The Marginalization of the Malayan Emergency in Beth Yahp and Tan Twan Eng’s Novels, Eugene Kee Hong Chua (University of Malaya, Malaysia)10. Methods of Memory: Artistic Legacies of the Malayan Emergency, Sim Chi Yin (King's College London, UK)List of Fiction and Films About the Malayan EmergencyBibliographyIndex

This volume unveils multiple ways the Malayan Emergency was imagined at the time, and has been repeatedly reimagined and contested since by observers and adversaries who experienced events, and by new generations of novelists, film-makers and artists. It allows us to see conflict history and memory as the product of a kaleidoscope of jostling representations.