Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

This public webinar is on Jane M. Ferguson's book talk on "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema," which was released by the University of Hawaii Press. Professor Ferguson explores the trajectory of Burmese popular films through three historical periods: colonialism, parliamentary democracy, and the Ne Win Socialist years. In the discussion, Professor Ferguson uses cinema to question conventional cultural ideals, offering political and cultural background to place the films as artistic attempts and capitalist goods.
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