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This module introduces students to the concepts, modalities, processes and implications of the public consumption of history in Southeast Asia. It aims to develop skills in analyzing the portrayals and appropriations of history by groups and individuals as manifest in popular media such as film, music, television, radio, novels, comics, plays, newspapers, and the internet. It also seeks to clarify the debates about the alleged debasement and commodification of history, on the one hand, and the promise of empowerment that popular culture lends to or shares with history, on the other.
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