Alluring monsters the pontianak and cinemas of decolonization
As famous in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West, the pontianak is a terrifying, fanged female vampire who is a much-loved and much-feared monster in Malay cultures. In traditional folklore, the pontianak is a woman who has died as a result of male violence or childbirth and whose return upsets...
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New York
Columbia University Press
2021
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: on the trail of the pontianak
- Popular horror and the anticolonial imaginary
- Troubling gender with the pontianak
- Race, religion, and Malay identities
- Who owns the kampung? heritage, history, and postcolonial space
- Animism as form: a pontianak theory of the forest