Conference Paper on Foreigners in Singapore Films reported in The Straits Times, 28 September 2021
How foreigners are portrayed in S'pore films Ho Ai Li, 28 September 2021 The Straits Times Ignorant, second-rate, morally degenerate and even vampiric. These are some of the ways in which elite foreigners - usually male Westerners - have been portrayed in Singapore films since the 1990s, noted Professor Kenneth Paul Tan in a paper titled The Foreigner In Singapore Films. Prof Tan, of Hong Kong Baptist University, presented his paper last Thursday at an online film symposium o