• DOI:10.1080/10357823.2016.1158779
Corpus ID: 147095200

Choosing What to Remember in Neoliberal Singapore: The Singapore Story, State Censorship and State-Sponsored Nostalgia

@article{Tan2016ChoosingWT,
  title={Choosing What to Remember in Neoliberal Singapore: The Singapore Story, State Censorship and State-Sponsored Nostalgia},
  author={K. Tan},
  journal={Asian Studies Review},
  year={2016},
  volume={40},
  pages={231 - 249}
}

K. Tan

Published 2016

Sociology

Asian Studies Review

Abstract This article interrogates the persistence of heavy-handed censorship of political films in Singapore at a time of cultural liberalisation when the state has generally shown greater tolerance for alternative political expression in theatre, the literary arts, academia and public events. Part of this has to do with the focus of these films on political dissidents and their greater capacity to present a fundamental challenge to The Singapore Story, which is the regime-legitimising… CONTINUE READING

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