Routledge · 2026
This Handbook adroitly explores, among others, Southeast Asian cinema’s diversity, casting new light on the regional, both raw and refined, and giving provocative insights into a diversity of film practices and cultures that are actually constructs in themselves, and that which has to be recognised. It takes invaluable account of the regional, that which has been occluded, seen as not being relevant or just simply ignored.
Hassan Muthalib, author of Malaysian Cinema in a Bottle
With The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas, we have, for the first time, a fascinatingly detailed studies of films in their social contexts, highlighting their social implications, relation to other art forms and discourses (music, architecture), audiences, and production and distribution contexts, in a region that long has been ignored.
David Hanan, author of Moments in Indonesian Film History: Film and Popular Culture in a Developing Society 1950–2020
Editors Izharuddin and Campos have compiled an invaluable resource that not only features some of the newest perspectives on Southeast Asian cinemas but at the same time reflects on the region as a theoretical site. Attending to the sensorial, affective, and infrastructural, to publics, platforms, and the trans/national, the volume moves between analyses of the latest moving image practices and reflection on the ways that the divergences, hybridities, and pluralities of Southeast Asia are able to invigorate cinema studies. Broadly showcasing divergent approaches, this fresh and innovative volume at the same time puts forth a conceptual question and challenge.
Arnika Fuhrmann, author of In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City