Deep Cuts # 3, Images and Films and Politics

This week in Deep Cuts, coinciding with Tharaphi Than’s upcoming talk on images in the uprising, are a few texts that consider visuality and visual practices in Myanmar. We have Mandy Sadan’s 2014 article on the history of photography in Burma, Jane Ferguson’s (2012) writings on the portrayal of Shan/Tai people in Burmese cinema, and Thurein Naing’s recent paper (2021) on the sit-tat’s annual propaganda films. They are not meant to be exhaustive, certainly, and please add yours to the comments. See here for the PDFs and citations

“Because we hate war, we fight” and other questionable claims

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