Research Catalog
Yonfan's Bugis Street
- Title
- Yonfan's Bugis Street [electronic resource] / Kenneth Chan.
- Author
- Chan, Kenneth.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
- Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Pres, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiii, 173 pages) :) : illustrations.
- Summary
- Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses on LGBT politics, activism, and cultures in Singapore today. This book's arrival at a much more complicated and contradictory picture of the discursive Bugis Street, through the examination of Yonfan's film and a range of other cultural and literary texts, adds a new critical dimension to the ongoing historical, geographical, sociological, ethnographic, and artistic analyses of this controversial space.
- Series Statement
- New Hong Kong cinema series
- Uniform Title
- Yonfan's Bugis Street (Online)
- New Hong Kong cinema.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Yonfan's Bugis Street (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- "Yonfan's filmography": page [157].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes filmography (pages [159]-161) and bibliographical references (pages [163]-173).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction : Bugis Street as historical-political-cultural discourse -- 1. Bugis Street as pop cultural archive -- 2. Bugis Street as sexuality on screen -- 3. Bugis Street as transnational queer cinema -- 4. Bugis Street as queer space and time -- Conclusion : Bugis Street as un-community.
- OCLC
- ssj0001619470
- Author
- Chan, Kenneth.
- Title
- Yonfan's Bugis Street [electronic resource] / Kenneth Chan.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Pres, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- New Hong Kong cinema seriesNew Hong Kong cinema.Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes filmography (pages [159]-161) and bibliographical references (pages [163]-173).
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: 9789888208760