TALK: Ethnicized Themes in Malaysian Films

February 10, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Zainal芒鈧劉s research explores the ways in which Malaysian undergraduates interpret and articulate themes on ethnic relations through their engagement with Malaysian films.

By employing a combination of research methods, including in-depth focus group interviews, the speaker seeks to address the kind of meanings that Malaysian undergraduates make out of contemporary Malaysian films that feature inter-ethnic themes.

Zainal adopts a constructivist perspective and draws in part upon Stuart Hall芒鈧劉s (1973) theories of encoding and decoding, and she argues for an extension of academic scholarship on how young film viewers engage with films in relation to the broader socio-cultural and socio-political contexts of their everyday lives.


Event Sponsor
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Mānoa Campus

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Thang, (808) 956-2688, cseaspr@hawaii.edu

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