Cosmopolitan boundaries in Singapore : a study of Singaporean film

While, in most cases, the discourse of cosmopolitanism is seen as a unifying step from divisive social structures, I argue in this thesis that the state’s vision of cosmopolitanism instead facilitates social inequality, through the state’s control of the urbanscape and the way space is produced. In...

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Main Author: Lim, Shane Han Jung
Other Authors: C. J. Wee Wan-ling
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85310
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49829
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description While, in most cases, the discourse of cosmopolitanism is seen as a unifying step from divisive social structures, I argue in this thesis that the state’s vision of cosmopolitanism instead facilitates social inequality, through the state’s control of the urbanscape and the way space is produced. In order to do so, I examine four independent, Singaporean films, Mee Pok Man and 12 Storeys, by Eric Khoo, Eating Air, by Kelvin Tong and Jasmine Ng, and Gone Shopping, by Wee Li Lin, to see how inhabitants of the city-state are entrapped, if they have recourse to escape, and ultimately, how they emulate cosmopolitanism. I thus contend that this social inequality is one that highlights the impossibility of escape for its population.
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spelling ntu-10356/853102020-10-28T08:29:19Z Cosmopolitan boundaries in Singapore : a study of Singaporean film Lim, Shane Han Jung C. J. Wee Wan-ling School of Humanities Humanities::Literature::English While, in most cases, the discourse of cosmopolitanism is seen as a unifying step from divisive social structures, I argue in this thesis that the state’s vision of cosmopolitanism instead facilitates social inequality, through the state’s control of the urbanscape and the way space is produced. In order to do so, I examine four independent, Singaporean films, Mee Pok Man and 12 Storeys, by Eric Khoo, Eating Air, by Kelvin Tong and Jasmine Ng, and Gone Shopping, by Wee Li Lin, to see how inhabitants of the city-state are entrapped, if they have recourse to escape, and ultimately, how they emulate cosmopolitanism. I thus contend that this social inequality is one that highlights the impossibility of escape for its population. Master of Arts 2019-09-02T00:52:48Z 2019-12-06T16:01:18Z 2019-09-02T00:52:48Z 2019-12-06T16:01:18Z 2019 Thesis Lim, S. H. J. (2019). Cosmopolitan boundaries in Singapore : a study of Singaporean film. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85310 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49829 10.32657/10356/85310 en 105 p. application/pdf
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