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Dear all,
We invite you to our upcoming book talk with Jane M. Ferguson (The
Australian National University) - "The Burmese Way to Socialist Realism:
Comparing Burmese Remakes of Hollywood Movies from the Parliamentary
Democracy and Socialist Periods" on Monday, November 10, 2025 from
12:30pm to 2pm in 10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) at UCLA or on Zoom.
REGISTER HERE FOR THE TALK
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Learning about, borrowing from, and copying established work to make a
new product is a fundamental part of the creative industries. Motion
pictures explicitly based on previous releases are called remakes. In an
industry which sometimes privileges auteurship and creativity, yet has a
business model that depends on mass appeal and established conventions,
the production of the remake, and its possibilities for contestation
present fruitful fodder in the exploration of the motion picture as
art/spectacle/commodity. Burmese cinematic remakes of popular stories,
novels as well as international films have been integral to the industry
since its earliest years. Following a theoretical overview of the
remake, its contestations, as well as its centrality to the motion
picture business model, this talk will consider the meaning of the
remake in Burma in the parliamentary democracy years (1948-1962). Then,
turning to the socialist era (1962-1988) it will explore the remake as a
cultural bellwether for Burmese engagement with global cinema.
Jane M. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast
Asian History at the Australian National University. She is the author
of Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema
(University of Hawaii Press, 2025).
Following the talk, our speaker will give a graduate student workshop -
"Researching Statelessness: Ethnography of the Borderlands" from
2-3:30pm in 10383 Bunche Hall. Students are expected to read a chapter
from Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State
Deferred. The author will facilitate discussion on ethnographic
approaches to studying ethnic boundaries and quasistatehood in Southeast
Asia and beyond.