Author Olivia Khoo

Olivia Khoo

Olivia Khoo is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University. She is the author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), and co-author (with Belinda Smaill and Audrey Yue) of Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas (Lexington, 2013). From January–April 2015 Olivia was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, with Love

Olivia Khoo

September 2015

Documentary in Asia

Publicity image for To Singapore, with Love, taken from Johor Bahru, Malaysia, looking at Singapore from the other side of the straits. Tan Pin Pin’s latest documentary, To Singapore, with Love (2013), open...

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On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, with Love