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Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib

Traditional entertainment for the Malays in the Malay Archipelago first came in the form of the Malay shadow play. It was nothing more than light entertainment meant for the ordinary Malay to recuperate after a hard day's work in the fields. More light entertainment, this time with song and dan...

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Main Author: Abd Muthalib, Hassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UPENA 2008
Subjects:
Malays (Asian people)
Malaysia
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11622/1/AJ_HASSAN%20ABD%20MUTHALIB%20JSM%2008%201.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.116222016-06-20T08:17:27Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11622/ Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib Abd Muthalib, Hassan Malays (Asian people) Malaysia Traditional entertainment for the Malays in the Malay Archipelago first came in the form of the Malay shadow play. It was nothing more than light entertainment meant for the ordinary Malay to recuperate after a hard day's work in the fields. More light entertainment, this time with song and dance, then appeared with Malay opera and Malay theatre. When Malays stepped into film (beginning in Singapore in 1933), the same fare and presentation was literally transferred onto the screen. Song and dance became one of the pleasures that the Malay looked forward to in films and soon it became a sine qua non for every film. UPENA 2008 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11622/1/AJ_HASSAN%20ABD%20MUTHALIB%20JSM%2008%201.pdf Abd Muthalib, Hassan (2008) Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib. Jurnal Skrin Malaysia, 5. pp. 181-197. ISSN 1823-1020
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Malaysia
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Malaysia
Abd Muthalib, Hassan
Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib
description Traditional entertainment for the Malays in the Malay Archipelago first came in the form of the Malay shadow play. It was nothing more than light entertainment meant for the ordinary Malay to recuperate after a hard day's work in the fields. More light entertainment, this time with song and dance, then appeared with Malay opera and Malay theatre. When Malays stepped into film (beginning in Singapore in 1933), the same fare and presentation was literally transferred onto the screen. Song and dance became one of the pleasures that the Malay looked forward to in films and soon it became a sine qua non for every film.
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title Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib
title_short Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib
title_full Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib
title_fullStr Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib
title_full_unstemmed Winning Hearts and Minds : representations of the Malay in the films of British Malaya / Hassan Abd Muthalib
title_sort winning hearts and minds : representations of the malay in the films of british malaya / hassan abd muthalib
publisher UPENA
publishDate 2008
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11622/1/AJ_HASSAN%20ABD%20MUTHALIB%20JSM%2008%201.pdf
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