03035nam 2200589 450 991082676240332120200520144314.0988-8313-26-6(CKB)3710000000565409(EBL)4394038(SSID)ssj0001619470(PQKBManifestationID)16349574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001619470(PQKBWorkID)14922527(PQKB)10111519(OCoLC)935989744(MdBmJHUP)muse51114(Au-PeEL)EBL4394038(CaPaEBR)ebr11161945(OCoLC)937392610(MiAaPQ)EBC4394038(EXLCZ)99371000000056540920160609h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrYonfan's Bugis street /Kenneth ChanHongkong, [China] :HKU Press,2015.©20151 online resource (189 p.)The New Hong Kong Cinema series"Yonfan's filmography": page [157].988-8208-76-4 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.New Hong Kong cinema.Motion picturesHistoryProstitution in motion picturesMotion picturesHistory.Prostitution in motion pictures.791.4301Chan Kenneth1633411MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826762403321Yonfan's Bugis street4009244UNINA