Session 1: The National Identity and Southeast Asian Cinema

Reading:

Wimal Dissanayake, “Nationhood, History, and Cinema: Reflections on the Asian Scene,” in Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema, Wimal Dissanayake (ed.), Indiana University Press, 1994, (ppix-xxix)

Wimal Dissanayake is a former Research Associate in the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center and the former head of the University of Sri Lanka’s Department of Mass Communication. He currently is a professor in the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawai`i where in teaches courses in global media. He received his doctorate in traditional media from Cambridge University and specializes in literature, media and the humanities in Asia. He is the author of 26 books on Asian and world cinema, including most recently Wong Kar-Wei’s Ashes of Time (2003).

Wimal Dissanayake

Professor, Academy of Creative Media

University of Hawai`i

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