Cultures at War: The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia

TABLE OF CONTENTS\nAcknowledgments\nCultures at War in Cold War Southeast Asia: An Introduction\nFilming Philippine Modernity during the Cold War: The Case of Lamberto Avellana\nModern Drama, Politics, and the Postcolonial Aesthetics of Left-Nationalism in North Sumatra: The Forgotten Theater of Indonesia\'s Lekra, 1955-65\nSaigonese Art during the War: Modernity versus Ideology\nCold War Rhetoric and the Body: Physical Cultures in Early Socialist Laos\nStill Stuck in the Mud: Imagining World Literature during the Cold War in Indonesia and Vietnam\nRaising Xenophobic Socialism against a Communist Threat: Re-reading the Lines of an Army Propaganda Magazine in 1950s Burma\nThe Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha\'s Insi thorng and the Hybridization of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema\nFestival Politics: Singapore\'s 1963 South-East Asia Cultural Festival\nFilling in the Gaps of History: Independent Documentaries Re-Present the Malayan Left\nRecalling and Representing Cold War Conflict and its Aftermath in Contemporary Indonesian Film and Theatre\nContributors