Introduction: Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998) (Khoo), Section
1. Independence and Post-WW2 Filmmaking: Nation-building, Modernity and Golden Eras (Ainslie), Chapter
1. A Nation Imagined Differently: The Critical Impulse of 1950s Indonesian Cinema (Yngvesson and Alarilla), Chapter
2. The 1950s Filipino Komiks-to-Film Adaptation During the Studio Era (Arriola), Chapter
3. Pearl Tears on the Silver Screen: War Movies and Expanding Burmese Militarism in the Early Independence Years (Ferguson), Chapter
4. Gender, Nation and Spatial Mobility in ON TOP OF THE WAVE, ON TOP OF THE WIND (Nguyen), Chapter
5. Spectacularity of Nationalism: War, Propaganda and Military in Indonesian Cinema During the New Order Era (Irawanto), Section
2. Key directors (Khoo), Chapter
6. Two Auteurs in the Indonesian Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s: Sjuman Djaya and Teguh Karya (Hanan and Soehadi), Chapter
7. Hussain Haniff and the place of the auteur in popular Malay cinema (Driskell), Chapter
8. Ratana Pestonji and Santi Vina: Exploring the 'Master' of Thai Cinema During Thailand's 'American Era' (Ainslie), Section
3. The Popular (Barker), Chapter
9. Locating Mike de Leon in Philippine Cinema (Campos), Chapter
10. Nora Aunor vs Ferdinand Marcos - Popular Youth Films of 1970s Philippine Cinema (Sebastiampillai), Chapter
11. Transnational Exploitation Cinema in Southeast Asia: The Cases of Indonesia and The Philippines (Barker and Imanjaya), Chapter
12. Mapping Regional Ambivalence and Anxieties in THEY CALL HER=CLEOPATRA WONG (Siddique), Chapter
13. The Boonchu Comedy Series: Pre-90s Thai Localism and Modernity (Khuankaew), Index