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While Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles led the expedition that founded colonial Singapore in 1819 and conceptualised many of the early institutions that developed the trade port, it was the depiction and commemoration of his time in the region that made him an icon of imperial mythology. This was part of a process in which admiration of his name and exploits were exalted, ultimately representing a core element in the Victorian mentality, the need to create heroes to glorify the British Empire. This article will survey and analyse how the commemoration of Raffles in the first 75 years of colonial rule, through the commissioning of statues and the attachment of his name to establishments and institutions, solidified and justified a British presence in the region and larger imperial history, which continues to echo in the modern nation-state of Singapore and its history.
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086848
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This article uses films made between 1955 and 1965 in the Chinese-owned, Malay-dominated, Singapore-based film industry as texts to analyse the attitudes of Malay activists in the film industry towards merdeka, or independence, in Malaya. It is argued that these activists were rarely interested in the process of political decolonization in the nation-state. Instead, the films made during this period used traditional local texts to promote Malay attitudes towards modernity, individualism and ethnic pride. This era of film-making ended in the mid-1960s as many of their hopes surrounding the possibilities of this new era did not come to fruition.
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