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Screening Singapore: The Cinematic Landscape of Eric Khoo's Be With Me

LAW, L., WEE, C.J.W.-L., MCMULLAN, F.·2011·Geographical Research
DOI 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00717.x
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This paper investigates the mutually constitutive relationship between the context of film production and the composition and content of images produced. Singapore film director Eric Khoo is central to our investigation, and his 2005 film Be With Me is a key example of how Singapore's ongoing urban redevelopment to become a world city reflexively shapes the style and appearance of the city-state projected in the film. Singapore's history as a developmental state, its pervasive influence on the public and private spaces of its citizens, and recent state-led initiatives to nurture the arts and media sectors all make it an ideal site to examine the relations between the cinema and space. Be With Me also lends itself to spatial analysis as its mise-en-scène is a geography of the life course: particular parts of the city are ‘cast’ as spaces of youth, middle, and old age. We elaborate how the landscapes deployed in the film are simultaneously constituted through state policies, mise-en-scène, and gender/age/class considerations. In so doing we show how Khoo's vision of the city-state has altered since his emergence as a film director in the 1990s: from an oppressed site of hyper-modernity to a more ambivalent ‘globalised’ built environment in which marginalised or liminal urban spaces for sensuous life and hope for human connection can be experienced.

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Metadata

Authors
LAW, L., WEE, C. J. W.-L., & MCMULLAN, F.
Affiliations
  • James Cook University (AU)
  • Nanyang Technological University (SG)
Corresponding author
LAW, L.
ORCID
Venue
Geographical Research
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2011-08-11
Volume
49
Issue
4
Pages
363-374
ISSN
  • 0004-9190 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-5863
DOI
10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00717.x
OpenAlex
W1501904213
Cited by
7
References
60
Citations by year
2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
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Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 1482 d)
Locations
  • Geographical Research (publishedVersion)
  • ResearchOnline - JCU (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Spatial and Cultural Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema History and Criticism
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema and Media Studies
Keywords
Singapore cinema, film and space, mise-en-scène, urban regeneration, global cities, developmental state, life course, age and gender, class, built environment, globalization

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